@cm0002@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world • 1 month agoI am from a different millenialemmy.mlimagemessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up11.07Karrow-down15
arrow-up11.07Karrow-down1imageI am from a different millenialemmy.ml@cm0002@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world • 1 month agomessage-square93fedilink
minus-square@Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink34•1 month agoJust FYI millennia is a plural form: one millennium, two millennia. So you’re from a different millennium.
minus-squarePrehensile_cloaca linkfedilinkEnglish11•1 month agoI was there, Gandalf…three thousand years ago…
minus-square@tweeks@feddit.nllinkfedilink6•1 month agoMaybe he is over a thousand years old, don’t you see the wrinkles?
minus-square@samus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoThen it would be “different millennia,” not “a different millennia.”
minus-square@spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoThose of us that were born before 2000: am I a joke to you?
minus-square@Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink1•1 month agoI’m also in that group, I only meant to write a direct parallel to the title, for comparison :-)
minus-square@spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoI figured, I just wanted to go along with it as a joke
minus-squareChrister EnforslinkfedilinkEnglish1•29 days agoYes, and the same goes for “medium”: one medium, several media. When people say “media” now, they typically mean what used to be referred to as “mass media”, that is, newspapers, TV, etc.
Just FYI millennia is a plural form: one millennium, two millennia. So you’re from a different millennium.
I was there, Gandalf…three thousand years ago…
Maybe he is over a thousand years old, don’t you see the wrinkles?
Then it would be “different millennia,” not “a different millennia.”
Those of us that were born before 2000: am I a joke to you?
I’m also in that group, I only meant to write a direct parallel to the title, for comparison :-)
I figured, I just wanted to go along with it as a joke
Dude you’re almost thirty!
Yes, and the same goes for “medium”: one medium, several media. When people say “media” now, they typically mean what used to be referred to as “mass media”, that is, newspapers, TV, etc.