GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoI hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.message-squaremessage-square153fedilinkarrow-up1431arrow-down118
arrow-up1413arrow-down1message-squareI hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square153fedilink
minus-squarericecake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up18·9 months agoThere was a solid decade where the pattern broke, and so e people didn’t get back into it. Two thousand, two thousand one etc don’t really work as “twenty oh-one”, etc.
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minus-squareBlemboTheThird@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoCalling them “the aughts” is also the best way I’ve found to refer to that decade
There was a solid decade where the pattern broke, and so e people didn’t get back into it.
Two thousand, two thousand one etc don’t really work as “twenty oh-one”, etc.
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Calling them “the aughts” is also the best way I’ve found to refer to that decade