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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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We need to start making the years sound cool

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[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I like calling the 00s the “odds”.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The best name I've heard for the 2000s is "the noughties", as in the plural of nought, zero.

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

then the teenies

[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

I call them the Noughties

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What are the odds?

[–] sealhaslupus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

the 00’s

[–] jeffep@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

If anything, shouldn't they be the evens?

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It’s hard to tell if that is a joke or a legitimate question.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I use 2ks ("tookays").