Damn
Automatic F for apostrophe abuse
I don’t have a lot of pet peeves when it comes to grammar, but pluralizing dates and acronyms with apostrophes is definitely one of them.
Okay, that is painful.
However, I think I’m going to start telling people that I was born in the mid-1900s.
What’s the cutoff? My instinct is 1975 but then that gives a 50 year period for ‘mid’ and only 25 each for ‘early’/‘late’. So is the cutoff between mid and late 1966?
I feel like early, middle and late aren’t continuous, and there’s gaps.
I don’t think 1932 is early or mid 1900s.
Kinda like how young, old and middle aged don’t have an immediate cutoff. A 31 year old is neither young nor middle aged, and a 54 year old is past middle aged, but they aren’t old yet.
Funny how you see gaps. I feel they overlap. For decades Like 31-34 is early 30s, 33-37 is mid, and 38 39 are late. (Late being a smaller interval because everyone likes it that way.)
I think the about the same proportions work for centuries.
But I definitely see gaps in being young, old, and middle-age.
Hmm, I normally say (since I turned 30) that 0-29 are young, 30-59 is middle aged, and 60-89 is old (90+ is super old/ancient 😆).
Yikes, my mid-1900s ass ain’t likin’ this trend.
I was wondering when this tweet would arrive here.
