There’s a handful of days left in this year, in this decade, and I’m disurbed that it’s taken us this long to come up with a name for the damn thing since we love to define time and styles by decades. Salon wrote about the issue in 2004, and there’s still no resolution. When you see a lazy writer refer to this decade as “the ’00′s” in print, how would you say that? Suh a cop-out to write that without telling us how to pronounce it. While we mull this over, I highly recommend you read You AUGHT To Remember, which sums up this sad, nameless decade.
3 Nov
Posted by 3carnations on November 3, 2009 at 9:03 am
I like to call it the “two thousands”.
Posted by Courtney on November 3, 2009 at 3:09 pm
That’s a good question. I can’t think of a name that doesn’t sound stupid.
Posted by Courtney on November 3, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Ooh, I just realized my previous comment made it sound like “The Ands” is stupid. It’s not! Two thousand and one, two thousand and two … it makes sense.
I thought it wasn’t stupid, but it just refuses to catch on, which is kind of stupid. (Also, the last three letters of “thousand” are “and…”
Posted by The Modern Gal on November 4, 2009 at 9:41 am
I swear it just occurred to me in reading this post and that Aught blog that this is the end of the whatever decade (I like The Ands, BTW). Wow, I am really slow. Still, I’m glad to punt this decade. Wasn’t quite my favorite. Probably had a lot to do with its identity crisis. Now the ’80s — that was a decade that knew who it was.
Posted by badger reader on November 4, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Did the “name that decade” article originally get published in Salon? You link to Slate. (FYI)
I have thankfully not had to refer to this decade beyond saying “this decade” in passing. This is now going to make my head hurt.