In many ways, how we communicate words to each other matter. Especially the words we use to describe periods of history, or moments in time. Take "The Enlightment" or "The Renaissance" - these words are now loaded with history itself (get it) and that means we can't use it collectively to describe another period. They start to form an identity on its own that we can't unsubscribe to mimetically

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It’s like how people co-opt “Cambrian Explosion” and “Bronze Age” today to mean exponential progress or regression.

Or how decade abbreviations like “the ’20s” or “the ’80s” don’t make sense a century later.

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That's a solid point, wtf are the eighties going to be called in 2125? Unless the future decides to just redo the eighties each century as a tribute to the OG 80s. Maybe it already started, what happened in the 1880s?

If we were consistent about it, we’d say we’re currently living in “the ’20s.” But we don’t.

I guess the turn of the third millennium broke the streak because there’s no single English word for “the ‘00s”.

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If we were consistent about it, we’d say we’re currently living in “the ’20s.” But we don’t.

I guess the turn of the third millennium broke the streak because there’s no single English word for “the ‘00s”.

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The aughts.

It's an older word, but it checks out.

It was probably more common in the 1900's.

Pretty much only hear it in reference to a "30 aught 6" rifle cartridge or "double aught" gauge wire... can't really think of anyone else younger than a boomer that would ever use it anymore.