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blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I’m a firm believer each nominal decade (“the 80s” in this case) starts with the year ending in 1 (1981-1990).

Mathematically it’s correct (there was no year 0), but more to the point look at anything in the popular culture in 1980, doesn’t it look like it’s from the 70s? Video from 1990 doesn’t look “90s”, it looks 80s.

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

there was no year 0

Just because no one said it was there, doesn’t mean it wasn’t.

It’s like vaccines and autism and other things RFK doesnt believe in. They still exist!

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- blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Dionysius did not use a year zero; the year preceding AD 1 was 1 BC.
  
  “The Oxford Companion to the Year” by Blackburn & Holford-Strevens
  
  There was not a year zero. This isn’t a conspiracy theory.
  
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  - Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    BC and AD are separate numbering schemes- so just because there is no year 0 defined doesn’t mean you can’t extrapolate - 0 AD is the same as 1 BC, and you’ll have -1 AD which is equivalent to 2 BC and so forth…
    
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workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Also the 80s is plural so in 1980 there was only one 80, but by 1981 there were two 80s.

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TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
“yea I’m an 80s baby”

“when we’re you born?”

“1990”

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- blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  To be fair, someone born in 1989 saying they’re an 80s baby would likewise get sideeyed from me.
  
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