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[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 51 points 4 weeks ago (13 children)

This is just intentionally phrased poorly to create a rise out of people. It's like referring to water as "dihydrogen monoxide".

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (9 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.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] broken_chatbot@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

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

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