July
@july
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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Darryl Yeo đ ïž
@darrylyeo
Itâs like how people co-opt âCambrian Explosionâ and âBronze Ageâ today to mean exponential progress or regression. Or how decade abbreviations like âthe â20sâ or âthe â80sâ donât make sense a century later.
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Brad Rumbl
@rumblart
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?
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Darryl Yeo đ ïž
@darrylyeo
If we were consistent about it, weâd say weâre currently living in âthe â20s.â But we donât. I guess the turn of the third millennium broke the streak because thereâs no single English word for âthe â00sâ. https://youtu.be/qo_EHY5jEX4
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Trigs
@trigs
The aughts. It's an older word, but it checks out.
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Darryl Yeo đ ïž
@darrylyeo
Ah yeah, forgot that was a thing
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Trigs
@trigs
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.
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Brad Rumbl
@rumblart
And without knowing you've just helped explain some Tom Waits lyrics that didn't make sense to me before, merci
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