Memetic consensus (as over the meaning of words, or proper names for places/people) is wilder and more intricate than formal consensus
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You can vote all you want on a name for the first decade of the 2000s but there still won’t be a name for it
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Replying to @literalbanana
the decade is called the 2000s. the thing that you're trying in vain to refer to is either the 21st century or the 3rd millennium (shifted down by one year) but it's not clear which
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @literalbanana
you can't have a convention that the 1970s are 1970 through 1979 without also having a convention that the 2000s are 2000 through 2009
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i mean you can, but it turns your language into a clown language
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yes english is already a clown language, no that doesn't make it a good idea to push it further down the clown slope
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