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**** I was born before 1980 and I think of ... | 2 | 3.51% | |
the cast iron year (1900) | 26 | 45.61% | |
the digital year (2000) | 10 | 17.54% | |
**** I was born in 1980 or later and I think of ... | 0 | 0% | |
the cast iron year (1900) | 11 | 19.30% | |
the digital year (2000) | 7 | 12.28% | |
I think of 1800. I'm really old. | 0 | 0% | |
I don't know what a century is, or why it would turn. | 1 | 1.75% | |
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12-20-2020, 08:52 PM | Topic Starter |
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What does "turn of the century" mean to you?
If you hear someone describe a "turn of the century" home or a "turn of the century" map or "turn of the century" toy, what time frame do you envision? Is it ...
1900 (aka "the cast iron version") or 2000 (aka "the digital version")? I'll ask this by age group, segmenting it by people who have spent a majority of their life before 2000 versus after 2000. |
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I immediately default to 1900 as well, but we're 20 years into the 2000s. I feel like there should be different terms for it.
I'll occasionally catch myself saying "turn of the century" about something that's from around 1900, and I wonder if that seems really weird to people under 40.
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12-20-2020, 08:55 PM | #4 |
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Probably my age.
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12-20-2020, 08:57 PM | #5 |
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1900 talked more about century
2000 talked more about millennium
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12-20-2020, 08:57 PM | #6 |
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I still think of the 1900s - not sure why. For the new Millennium, I consider it 2001 (there was no year zero).
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12-20-2020, 08:58 PM | #7 |
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This thread just made me think that being born in the 80s I have now lived longer in this century than I did in the previous one.
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That sounds really futuristic to me since I'm a 20th century man. But someday I hope to be a 21st century man as well.
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12-20-2020, 09:43 PM | #9 |
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Excuse me, good sir, but a new century technically begins when the year ends in 01 instead of 00, otherwise the previous century wouldn't complete its required span of 100 years
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On that note, I remember how intrigued I was to watch my car odometer roll over to 101,000 miles.
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When live steam was king of the world.
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2000 was millenium, 1900 was century. At least in my lazy perception.
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These results are interesting. 69 percent of people over age 40 think about the turn of 1900 compared to 62 percent of people age 40 and younger. That's not a big difference, and it's particularly interesting since the younger people have spent a majority of their lives after 2000.
It appears that "Turn of the Century" refers to 1900 (or 1901 if you're a theoretician), while the change in 2000 is "the Millennium" or maybe "Turn of the Millennium". I'm glad that I'm not being old-fashioned when I think about 1900.
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12-21-2020, 09:19 PM | #15 |
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A "Turn Of The Century" is when the prostitute flips you on your back, holds you at gunpoint, and steals your wallet.
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