• go $fsck yourself@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

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

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      6 hours ago

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