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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Nobody voted on what things are called - people who needed to refer to them just gave them nicknames until one stuck
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One of the most antipathetic types of person is the one who insists that there are "correct" and "incorrect" usages in cases like this, or in anything to do with pronunciation. Actually the use of "in/correct" in place of any of the alternatives is usually a giveaway sign itself.
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I’m a descriptivist at this level too - it’s normal and natural and plainly the case that people are prescriptivists
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Wordy McWordFace
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yes this explains why the world isn’t called worldy mcworldface
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nuh uh it's "the 2000s"
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