Remember that whole Y2K silliness? We were so focused on everything exploding (or whatever it was we were worried about) that we didn’t think much about what we were going to call the year 2000 (which is what we ended up calling it as you’ll recall--2000. I like that better than 00 as in Oh Oh or Zero Zero, dont' you?)
But here we are, coming up on ten years later and it’s time to think about two important things, semantics-wise:
1. What do we call this decade from 2000-2010?
The early 21st century?
The turn of the century?
The Ohs?
The zeros?
What did they call 1900-1910? I’ll Google it.
Answer: The Oughts.
That’s so weird. We totally cannot call 2000-2010 “the oughts.” But we really need to figure this out before 2011 so keep thinking.
2. What are we going to call the year 2010?
Twenty-ten?
Two-thousand and ten?
Ten?
I mean, right now we call all the years preceding it “Oh One,” “Oh Two,” “Oh Three” and so on so really, “Ten” makes the most sense.
But then again, the year 2012 comes a lot because of reasons both Olympic and political and people always say “Twenty-twelve.” So if you go with that then next year will be “Twenty Ten.”
“Back in the summer of twenty-ten.” That just doesn’t work for a rock song.
Our year name is almost as crappy as our decade name!
“Who were the Jonas Brothers?”
“You know, they were a band that was popular in the oughts.”
Yep, this is a way bigger disaster than Y2K.
3 comments:
At work we have been calling it "Oh-Ten"
I was wondering what Leo would call the decade he was born in. I can't think of anything good.
He'll probably be more defined by a generation...Gen Z, I guess?
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