On the Decades

[Bill3000]

Considering that the year 2010 is coming up fast, I have two questions that have honestly confused me here.

1) What is the name of the decade we are leaving? It's not something simple like say, the eighty's, ninety's, etc, so what will we call it? What should it be called?
2) ...does the next decade start next year in 2010 or in 2011? I remember the fight over the third millennium starting in 2000 or 2001, so does that still apply here?

Feel free to put your input on these two topics, as well as asking similar questions to this topic.

 

[Kraznaya]

I find it weird that we'll switch from two thousand - number to twenty - number in our syntax when we get to 2010.

 

[Godwynn]

2000-2009 should be called "the craps" because that's what they were.

 

[Cutlass]

Aughts.

 

[dannyshenanigan]

During the decade 1900-1910 they referred to it as the oughts or the naughts. But we could call it the tens with this upcoming decade being the teens and be right.

 

[Gilder]

The Double Ohs?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I've seen this decade referred to as the "noughties." The next decade begins on New Year's Day, 2011.

 

[I'm Cleo!]

I'm with "Aughts" or "Oughts." Whichever spelling is correct. Although Godwynn's "Craps" is pretty good.

Cleo

 

[warpus]

2) ...does the next decade start next year in 2010 or in 2011? I remember the fight over the third millennium starting in 2000 or 2001, so does that still apply here?

The decade starts in 2011

However, when you say "the 80s" you must obviously include every single number that is an 80.. which implies 80 - 89.

When people were arguing about the start of the 21th century, those who said that it starts in 2001 were right.

So the next decade starts in 2011, but if you're talking about the 10s (or whatever), you gotta go 2010 - 2019

 

[Birdjaguar]

I'm with "Aughts" or "Oughts." Whichever spelling is correct. Although Godwynn's "Craps" is pretty good.

Cleo

What Cleo said: ^^^

 

[Cutlass]

I'm with "Aughts" or "Oughts." Whichever spelling is correct. Although Godwynn's "Craps" is pretty good.

Cleo

"Aughts" is already in use.

...

You could easily memorialize the aughts as the Decade of Reality TV, that wild baby genre conceived in some orgy of soap opera, documentary, game shows, and vaudeville—it was reality, after all, that upended the industry’s economic model and rewrote the nature of fame.

...

http://nymag.com/arts/all/aughts/62513/

...

We kick off our Best of the Decade series with The Ten Best (American) Television Shows of the Aughts,...

...

http://www.pajiba.com/guides/the-ten-best-television-shows-of-the-aughts.php

 

[warpus]

Aughts, I like that.

Is that what they used 100 years ago, or did they have some fancy British fancyboy type term for it? (like hoodlywinks or something)

 

[pau17]

The decade starts in 2011

However, when you say "the 80s" you must obviously include every single number that is an 80.. which implies 80 - 89.

When people were arguing about the start of the 21th century, those who said that it starts in 2001 were right.

So the next decade starts in 2011, but if you're talking about the 10s (or whatever), you gotta go 2010 - 2019

Doesn't it work like this:

1) 1980
2) 1981
3) 1982
4) 1983
5) 1984
6) 1985
7) 1986
8) 1987
9) 1988
10) 1989

1) 1990
2) 1991
...etc.

So the next decade starts in 2010. It's like in soccer...when the clock reads 18:23, it's the 19th minute. 2009 is the 10th year already. When it ends, new decade.

 

[warpus]

@pau17 You are right and I do change my mind... but not for that reason

The first decade ever was 1-10, second one was 11-20, third one 21-30, etc.
Following this pattern it is obvious that the ___th decade is 2011-2020

That is the reason the 21st century started in 2001 and not 2000.. Because we're specifically pointing out the 21st century. The first one was 1-1000, etc.

For decades, we don't do that. We don't say, the 201st decade. We refer it to the 80s, or 90s, or wahtever.

And that's why the next decade starts in 2010.

 

[Syterion]

It's "The 'Aughts."

 

[Snorrius]

Zeroes. "Back in Zeroes I was a finance top manager. US still existed back then, - said an old janitor."

 

[ParadigmShifter]

It's the noughties and we gonna enter the oonies soon.

 

[Gustave5436]

I find it weird that we'll switch from two thousand - number to twenty - number in our syntax when we get to 2010.

"twenty oh #" doesn't sound as good as "nineteen oh #" or "eighteen oh #" and so on, I suppose.

 

[Leifmk]

For decades, we don't do that. We don't say, the 201st decade. We refer it to the 80s, or 90s, or wahtever.

And that's why the next decade starts in 2010.

Exactly; in general terms, a decade is any ten-year period whatsoever; when we speak of "this decade" we usually mean the current decade as defined by including those calendar years where only the last digit is different.

Also, of course, hardly anybody during the first century (or second, third, fourth or fifth century) in the current chronology ever used those terms, since the "Anno Domini" chronology was written up much later and backdated to map onto previously-used ones. (Devised in the 6th century, and it took a few more centuries before it dominated general usage in most of Europe.)

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Maybe the dalxennas, more info here:

http://polytope.net/hedrondude/topes.htm