I’ve always done that. It’s always been confusing that the name of the century has a different number than the leading two numbers of the year. Somebody says, “in the late 18th century,” I take a second to think, “okay that means 1700’s,” whereas if they just say “in the late 1700’s,” it’s immediately clear.
ayrua on
But the 1900s is the first decade of the 20th century, just like the 2000s are the first decade of the 21st century
ofirkedar on
I fucking hate it that the “centuries” end on the only year that sounds like it makes sense for a given century. We’re currently living in the 21st century and it will make sense on the year 2100, one solitary year, then boom it’s the 22nd c.
I get the logic that the first year of your calendar it’s during the first century, and once a hundred years passed it’s the second century, but in hindsight this is so clunky. (I shouldn’t even mention it but the year before 1CE is the year 1BC. Pisses me off. If you can handle negative numbers then you should be able to work with the concept of “0”).
btw music theory has this same issue so the interval between a note and itself is a prima (a 1st), so the interval between a step on a key and the next step is a 2nd. Ok seems fine but then a 2nd plus a 2nd is two steps, or a 3rd. And now you get the cursed arithmetic 3rd+6th=8ve, 3rd+3rd+3rd=7th, a 3-ply stack of 4ths is a 10th or an 8ve + a 3rd.
If musicians had the sense to start at 0 like programmers (Matlab is not a real programming language, it’s garbage) then you’d build your dominant chord by stacking three 2nds and call it a 6-chord, you’d stack three 3rds that span over a 9th, etc.
Yes, going up 12 half tones will equate to a 7th. Septima. By the way, newsflash to Western music, your scales have 7 notes in them, if you go up the scale and somehow land at the 8va, then you had to count the same note twice, that’s not an interval, that’s a count!
Ok sorry got carried away on this tangent.
English speakers literally say years like “19 76” “20 13” so we have a great reason to ask, why the hell is most of the 19th century made of years that start with 18???
Schwiftness on
The 1900’s are the years between 1900 and 1909, the 1910’s are the years between 1910 and 1919 —and so forth…
If people refer to an entire century like this, they are just idiots.
Codeviper828 on
My mother always thought “1900’s” meant 1900-1909, but used “1800’s” to mean 1800-1899 (and for every century before). Very weird
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I’ve always done that. It’s always been confusing that the name of the century has a different number than the leading two numbers of the year. Somebody says, “in the late 18th century,” I take a second to think, “okay that means 1700’s,” whereas if they just say “in the late 1700’s,” it’s immediately clear.
But the 1900s is the first decade of the 20th century, just like the 2000s are the first decade of the 21st century
I fucking hate it that the “centuries” end on the only year that sounds like it makes sense for a given century. We’re currently living in the 21st century and it will make sense on the year 2100, one solitary year, then boom it’s the 22nd c.
I get the logic that the first year of your calendar it’s during the first century, and once a hundred years passed it’s the second century, but in hindsight this is so clunky. (I shouldn’t even mention it but the year before 1CE is the year 1BC. Pisses me off. If you can handle negative numbers then you should be able to work with the concept of “0”).
btw music theory has this same issue so the interval between a note and itself is a prima (a 1st), so the interval between a step on a key and the next step is a 2nd. Ok seems fine but then a 2nd plus a 2nd is two steps, or a 3rd. And now you get the cursed arithmetic 3rd+6th=8ve, 3rd+3rd+3rd=7th, a 3-ply stack of 4ths is a 10th or an 8ve + a 3rd.
If musicians had the sense to start at 0 like programmers (Matlab is not a real programming language, it’s garbage) then you’d build your dominant chord by stacking three 2nds and call it a 6-chord, you’d stack three 3rds that span over a 9th, etc.
Yes, going up 12 half tones will equate to a 7th. Septima. By the way, newsflash to Western music, your scales have 7 notes in them, if you go up the scale and somehow land at the 8va, then you had to count the same note twice, that’s not an interval, that’s a count!
Ok sorry got carried away on this tangent.
English speakers literally say years like “19 76” “20 13” so we have a great reason to ask, why the hell is most of the 19th century made of years that start with 18???
The 1900’s are the years between 1900 and 1909, the 1910’s are the years between 1910 and 1919 —and so forth…
If people refer to an entire century like this, they are just idiots.
My mother always thought “1900’s” meant 1900-1909, but used “1800’s” to mean 1800-1899 (and for every century before). Very weird
Now we have two 20’s