This may be a “loanword” from the student’s native language. In Swedish, they use “1900-talet” (1900s) instead of “twentieth century”
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gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 9 hours agoBecause people don’t use that terminology when referring to a time period within a majority of living people’s lifetime.
broken_chatbot@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Donkter@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Sure they do. I’m sure the century cutoff helps too.
If someone one would refer to the 1920s as “the early 1900s” cause it’s over 100 years ago it follows logically to call other parts of the 1900s the mid and late period.