This Ad Age piece on “the death of Joe Consumer” wasn’t particularly startling but this bit amused me:
During the still-nameless decade from 2000 to 2010,” he writes, “a total of about 3 million people have moved out of the Northeast, and another 2 million have left the Midwest”Emphasis mine. Dude, it’s the noughties, live with it!
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To be serious: Actually, I kind of like the fact that the word is indeterminate. It reflects the lack of consensus, the...
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Fine, call it something else then! But “still-nameless decade” suggests that despite having almost ten years to think...
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No it’s not. Nought doesn’t mean anything to half the English-speaking world.
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