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What happened to the 2000s?
Al'so, we're apo'strophe's on 'sale or 'something?
Damn, and we all agreed to never forget
The 1990s: Correct
The '90s: Also correct as you're abbreviating the above.
The 90's: Incorrect but I understand the mix-up.
The 1990's: Totally wrong in every way
what if we are using a possessive form instead of plural?
Then you write The 90s' like you would with other words ending in S. "The 90's" would be like writing "The new's"
It's referring to the years between 1990 and 1999 so the 90s is already plural.
Unless you're referring specifically to something belonging to the year 1990? Can't think of any sentence where that would occur.
Yeah I was trying to think of one earlier, too, but I don't think English is "set up" that way. We say things are FROM or OF the year, I can't recall hearing that anything belongs TO a year.
1990's first day was January 1.
Nice!! I still couldn't think of one at it was popping into my head all last night
I have two pickup trucks that are basically identical, only separated by year of manufacture - a 1990 and 1991 Chevy Silverado. The 1990's transmission is bad.
That's good, too!! I'll bet there's a bunch more
1990s' last day was December 31, 1999.
1999's last day was 12/31/1999
1990s' last day was 12/31/1999
1990's last day was 12/31/1990
lol
The 2000s would be hard to sum up in a single photo without breaking the narrative. The family would be well off, getting fat and buying a McMansion. They would likely be just as culpable for the issues affecting those later decades.
2000 - 2008: economic boom combined with lots of deregulation on Wall Street led to the creation of almost a trillion in off the books derivative investments which were repackaged and sold off so much that they became toxic despite looking fine on paper, and made you money. Keeping the whole thing going led to something of an 8% increase in subprime lending.
Combine that with lots of folks from the 90s rampantly speculating on house sales, creating a housing bubble as they try to get rich by raising prices and flipping houses. Mix in even more deregulation and you get a Great Recession setting back a generation, in 2008. All while the folks who pushed the deregulation turn around and blame it on a president who wasn’t even inaugurated until 2009.
Thanks, Obama.
The 90's were 20 years ago, we don't talk about the 2000's
What are you abbreviating with that apostrophe?
The (19)'90s or just The 90s.
The 2000s are 20 years away, the 90s are 30 years away by now.
Whooosh
Popping the bubble is as much part of the joke as pretending it's not been that long.
Same with the people pretending the 80s were only 20 years ago.
They got 9/11'd
Should be cookie cutter condos.