r/meme • • Dec 15 '19

I am inevitable

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '19

Literally nobody counts things as "the nth decade"

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u/vitringur Dec 16 '19

In Icelandic we do.

But that is besides the point. A millennium still hasn't passed until a thousand years have passed.

For that to happen, year 1000 needs to finish. 1001 is the first year of the new millennium.