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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How so? I would certainly call something from 1894 to be from the "late 1800s' or late 19th century. I mean, we're a quarter of the way through this century, at some point it turns into history.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because people don't use that terminology when referring to a time period within a majority of living people's lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Just because people can doesn't mean people do. We have terminology for the time periods through the 1900s that have been in use for so long that people just don't use that type of terminology. Particularly because it paints it in a misleading light, as if it were ancient history. People typically just refer to those periods as "the 80s" or "the 90s".

Referring to those time periods with terminology we use for ancient history when we have far more frequently used terminology is a deliberate choice to make the time periods feel like ancient history. (Barring language barriers, of course)

It feels like you're just trying to be contrarian. If you honestly believe it's commonly used to refer to something so recent, then please provide evidence of people using that to refer to the 90s often. Otherwise you're just relying on "I can imagine it, so it must be true".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

This may be a "loanword" from the student's native language. In Swedish, they use "1900-talet" (1900s) instead of "twentieth century"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

late 1800s*

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank's. Its good to know how to use proper apostrophe's.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Your whale come

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When most of your life occurred in the 20th century, it looks a lot different.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because you still had to watch things from poor quality VHS tapes on CRT monitors. Of course it looked different.