Okay, that is painful.
However, I think I’m going to start telling people that I was born in the mid-1900s.
What’s the cutoff? My instinct is 1975 but then that gives a 50 year period for ‘mid’ and only 25 each for ‘early’/‘late’. So is the cutoff between mid and late 1966?
I feel like early, middle and late aren’t continuous, and there’s gaps.
I don’t think 1932 is early or mid 1900s.Kinda like how young, old and middle aged don’t have an immediate cutoff. A 31 year old is neither young nor middle aged, and a 54 year old is past middle aged, but they aren’t old yet.
Funny how you see gaps. I feel they overlap. For decades Like 31-34 is early 30s, 33-37 is mid, and 38 39 are late. (Late being a smaller interval because everyone likes it that way.)
I think the about the same proportions work for centuries.
But I definitely see gaps in being young, old, and middle-age.
I’ve always gone 30-33 is early, 34-36 is mid, and 37-39 is late myself.
I agree here. This is what I go by
Hmm, I normally say (since I turned 30) that 0-29 are young, 30-59 is middle aged, and 60-89 is old (90+ is super old/ancient 😆).
This hurts nearly as much as the OP.
Middle-aged starts at 30?! Fuck I’m old. At 53, middle-age didn’t start til 45, 75-89 is old, and I’d put super old at 95+.
Then again, I may be skewed a bit since my 88 year old dad is sharper than most people I know, still works his regular job in aerospace, and drives Uber in his spare time to keep himself young. He may live to 120 at this rate.
They’ll think you’re a time traveller!
Had a class where the cutoff was 17 years IIRC so it’s entirely possible that sources from the 90s aren’t accepted in their class.
Yeah, I looked at this and wondered what was so surprising about the text; I’m the same age as this incredible paper and I’ve regularly had professors that wouldn’t accept something that old. To be honest, what I landed on is OOP is also a ‘94 baby who’s teaching their first class.
Calling 90’s “late 1900s” is mega weird for anyone who isn’t really young
Being born in 2000 would make you 23 years old today… which means you could feasibly have graduated college by then. So maybe less weird than you think.
Zoomer genocide when
Age is not genetic pal
Can’t make an omelet without cracking some zoomers
It’s not genocide if they aren’t culling based on genetics.
Automatic F for apostrophe abuse
there aren’t enough F’s for that kid
I don’t have a lot of pet peeves when it comes to grammar, but pluralizing dates and acronyms with apostrophes is definitely one of them.
Yeah! They should of not used that apostrophe!
(Fun fact, my phone apparently now won’t even let me type that phrase without it autocorrecting it to “have”. I had to manually “fix” it. Good on you, iOS.)
It depends on the field.
In an intro to physics course, I’ve cited the Principia before without issues.
I’ve also cited the Cyropaedia in a philosophy course.
I got a significant penalty for citing a 2013 article for a software design paper.
Reminds me of someone asking how to cite the Bible. Whether or not you can just go “John 3:16” or “His Majesty King James VI of Scotland and I of England, Ireland and France - 1611 ‘Authorised Version’ Translation of The Bible - John Chapter Three Section 16”
Although if you were directly quoting it, I think stating the translation would be more important than if you were referencing it.
Translations are important, and with the Cyropaedia I did need to use the translation. For the Principia, because I wanted to flex, I provided my own translation. I could have cited the text book, but that would be less fun.
The Bible, The Lord; 0 AD
Be bold, dare your teacher to dock you points for it.
Guessing that last one was in 2014
What do you do to write for physics, philosophy and software design papers?
I’m working on my third bachelor’s degree.
A degree in the classics pays absolute shit, and math teachers are still paid shit, albeit slightly more than Starbucks. It turns out I hate children more than anticipated.
Damn
Gotta wonder if this how people born in 1880/1890 felt when/if people in the 1920’s referred to 1894 as the late 1800’s
Yikes, my mid-1900s ass ain’t likin’ this trend.
I might be retarded but what’s wrong with the post? The year is specified quite unconventionally, but that’s all i can see.
The student implies the late 1900’s was very long ago, and the Twitter poster found that hurtful possibly in a joking matter.
Hearing someone talk about a time that you vividly remember as a generic 100 year historical era.
It feels like someone dropped those decades into an archive folder with the rest of history and left it to collect dust.
I have a violent urge to smack this child upside their head.
That’s the “get off my lawn” response developing. However, you, me, and anyone born after 1990 won’t have a lawn shoo kids off from.
“Get off the public street in front of my apartment!”
Can confirm: Was born during 1990; have lawn.
As the Beastie Boys so famously put it:
“Ooh, GODDAMN!”
Took me like 3 reads, but I cracked up once I realized.
I was wondering when this tweet would arrive here.
It’s been posted at least one other time on Lemmy.
Good to know it’s been enjoyed here before now.
