Please explain my confused me like I’m 5 (0r 4 or 6).

  • eatham 🇭🇲
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    6 months ago

    I hate it when people say it wasnt the start of a new decade, it’s a shit argument, why does it matter what the first year was, 2014 - 2024 is also a decade, and 2pm aest September 22nd 2024 will also be the start of a new decade. There is nothing wrong with saying 2020 was the start of a new decade. (again, it was)

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      6 months ago

      There are decades and there are decades. Just like there are weeks (period between Monday and Sunday inclusive) and weeks (any seven consecutive days).

      When you say “I’ll do this next week”, then you mean the next period between Monday and Sunday. When you say you’ll do it in a week, it means you’ll do it after exactly 7 days from now, regardless of what day is it today. Same for decades.

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        6 months ago

        You said start of a new decade, not the new decade in the original comment, they are very different

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            6 months ago
            1. when I originally replied to you, I very obviously did not know that you meant that

            2. didn’t know you weren’t a native speaker either