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Glossary entry

Swedish term or phrase:

2000-talet

English translation:

First two decades of the 21st century

Added to glossary by Paul Lambert
Sep 5, 2006 16:51
17 yrs ago
Swedish term

2000-talet

Swedish to English Other Finance (general)
What would be a short way of describing the first and second decades of the 21st century - the twenties and thirties... are obvious! The noughties perhaps?!
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 First two decades of the 21st century
3 The BBC uses the noughties

Discussion

Christine Andersen Sep 7, 2006:
While the first two decades of the 20th century divided easily into Edwardian/pre-war, wartime and post-war (when only one war counted!), I am almost sure expressions like 'Roaring Twenties' and 'Depression in the Thirties' pre-date WW II - or don't they?
Lagom (asker) Sep 5, 2006:
I know, but... Yes I know that, but I was trying to think of a more specific way of describing the first two decades independently. This isn't hugely important! Ben
Matthias Quaschning-Kirsch Sep 5, 2006:
And, regarding the first and second decade - why not "the first two decades of the 21st c.?
You mention all this yourself in your question. So, what's wrong about it?
Matthias Quaschning-Kirsch Sep 5, 2006:
Why explicitely not 21st century? E.g. "1900-talet" is the entire 20th c. - and so on.

Proposed translations

+2
2 hrs
Selected

First two decades of the 21st century

What makes this question interesting is that the term 50's, 60's, 70's etc only came about in English long after World War II. People who lived in the 1800's did not refer to the 50's, 60's or 70's etc of their own century. It is only recently that popular culture took an interest in particular decades. Today we see the culutre of the 50's as being distinct from the 60's while people who were alive in 1932 would not remember, say 1921, as being a different era. (if you know what I mean.)
Peer comment(s):
agree E2efour (X) : I'm curious about what evidence you have for the above. Certainly in the 19th century people wrote about "the twenties" etc.
15 hrs
No I don't think they did. In fact I would be curious to see any evidence to the contrary. I don't mean this as a challenge, but out of sincere interest. If you have a source document from the 1800's referring to decades in the manner that we do today.
agree Alfa Trans (X)
5 days
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The BBC uses the noughties

Good question. I'm not fond of 'the noughties' and I usually try to evade the issue altogether with phrases like

since 2000 (or whenever, if I know a date)
the last few years
the first years of the century (I don't like it, but a particular client uses it)
since the turn of the century

According to Wikipedia, the BBC uses the Noughties, but this is not very useful in the USA. It raises cheesy grins in Denmark too!
So you do have t owatch your target group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s

I'll be watching this space for better suggestions. Have you posted it as a monolingual English question?
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