Someone asked a question about how frequently young people have time to socialize and it made me think about what people do with their evenings. I recently asked my son to go to a concert (free ticket to see a band i know he likes) and he declined because it was an hour away on a weeknight. If we invite our kids or niece/nephew to dinner they always want to go at 6/630 which feels so early. Edit: Kids are 30ish.
I don’t think they had video games in the 1900s, since Tennis for Two was invented in the 1950s.
Hate to break it to you, but 1950 is only halfway into the 1900s.
No, 1905 is halfway into the 1900s.
Bold move doubling down on that one. I’m excited to see if your attempt to change the internationally accepted name for an entire century to now only include one decade pays off! Keep me updated!
Hmmm… So if i say that both World Wars occurred in the 1900’s, you would disagree?
They didn’t both occur in the first decade of the twentieth century, if that’s what you’re confused about.
You do know that words can have more than one meaning, right?
You know the meaning depends on context, right?
Yes. And you’re getting the context wrong, which is what everyone is telling you.
Nope. The 20th century is recent enough that the 1900s refers to a specific decade, and OP clearly couldn’t have been referring to the entire century anyway since video games didn’t exist for the majority of it.
The 1950s are part of the 1900s… same as 1850 was part of the 1800s. They were just being facetious using “1900s” anyway. That will change as we all get older though, eventually it will just be the 1900s.
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That was 10 years ago. The further we get from “the 1900s” the broader the term will become to include the whole century, much like the 1800s is 1800-1899. I imagine in another 10-20 years it will be more and more common to see this shift when referencing past events.