The 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s are history.
So, where are we now?
Ten years from now, when Time-Life comes out with a “Best of…” music collection from this decade, what will it be called?
“Best of the first decade?”
“Best of the single digits?”
“Best of the first ten years?”
I think it will be like the previous century, where we refer to the “early 1900s” or “the first decade.”
The most popular names I’ve heard proposed so far ar the “ohs” and the “aughties.”
I personally like the “nadas.”
The “naughties,” perhaps?
It’ll probably be like the man says, just like the beginning of the last century. But it sure would be cool if we came up with something interesting to call it. Like maybe
“the 2K’s” or the “nil’s”
That would be kinda cool.
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Why does this topic appear every few weeks?
And why the hell is it so important that someone keeps asking?
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It does reappear frequently, doesn’t it? I think the best answer is probably, “Why don’t you just hang around and see what we wind up calling this decade?”
No! Lets make a decision now, and stick with it! Legislate it as the definitive name, and be incredibly famous for fifteen whole minutes over this momentous piece of pointlessness!
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I was thinking about it over the weekend, and my gut feeling is that we will refer to the coming years as “oh-one,” “oh-two,” etc. Thus, the decade will be known as the “Ohs”.
I’m not happy about this, but I fear it’s the way it will probably be.
I think “the thousands” has an outside chance, too.
The idea that decades have “names” is comparatively new. There were the Gay 90s, of course (1890s, and not the use of the word “gay” that you’re thinking of)… and the Mauve Decade and the Roaring 20s. Those terms were in contemporary use (at the time those decades were going on).
But when historians or sociologists describe “The 60s”, they usually start that era in 1963 (Kennedy assassination) or 1964 (Beatles arrival in the U.S.) … and end it around 1974 (Nixon resignation) or some such point. Decades as we think of 'em and decades as history thinks of 'em, needn’t coincide.
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Personally, I vote for the “Oh-ohs”