"Decade" has become grossly overused, amirite?

It's been over nearly a decade

by Annabell77 1 day ago

Yes, it's been nearly over a decade or more since I last used "decade" since I seriously used "decade" in such a manner.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

I haven't been to the dentist in 10 years, he said I now have Tooth Decade

by Anonymous 1 day ago

So half a dozen years.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Almost over nearly half a decade

by Defiant_Albatross 1 day ago

Do you feel the same way about "Century" "Minute" or "Month"?

by Hardygutmann 1 day ago

Don't even get him started about days.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Give me the number of hours, damnit! Your baby isn't nearly 6 months old! He's 3,892 hours old!

by Anonymous 1 day ago

I always use milliseconds instead... 31,557,600,000ms instead of a year. It's been nearly a year < It's been 30,236,328,825ms

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Dude wants people telling him that they do their grocery shopping at a store 10,500 feet from their house, because "about 2 miles" isn't accurate enough. Larger, more situationally useful measurements are a problem, somehow.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

You have a point on "nearly half a decade" but why in the heck would "in more than two decades" annoy you? That's using the word right.

by Gibsonsantos 1 day ago

Because I want to know when whatever they are referring to happened. "The Beatles have not worked together for more than two decades" tell me very little.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Well yeah in that case, "half a century" would be more accurate…

by ContactAcceptable 1 day ago

Yeah, no one is saying "more than 2 decades" when they mean half a century, unless you just have some jackass friends….. this is not how conversations work.

by Gibsonsantos 1 day ago

More than 2 decades actually is accurate because the three surviving Beatles at the time came together in the 90s for the Anthology Project and recorded music together.

by marcosnikolaus 1 day ago

Touché! I was going off of when they broke up but you're totally right.

by ContactAcceptable 1 day ago

Having no clue of the context OP is referring to, I have to imagine whatever it is was talking about the Anthology Project. But that's just speculation on my part

by marcosnikolaus 1 day ago

I bet OP hates the use of century too

by Malloryrowe 1 day ago

It tells you that it's better 20 and 30 years. Do you really need to know if it's been 22 or 27? Honestly it feels like context matters here, but in most casual conversations the extra year number does not matter and the person may not even know it. In academic papers you're right, but those are usually precise.

by Gibsonsantos 1 day ago

It does not tell you that. In fact, it's been a good deal longer, yet the statement remains true.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Technically, yes, you are right, but no one is saying "more than two decades" when it's 50 years, unless they literally don't know and made a conservative guess, in which case yes, they should just say they don't know but then they can't use years either because they don't know, so your solution is a non-solution. Technically 50 years is more than two decades, but that is not how normal conversations work.

by Gibsonsantos 1 day ago

The three surviving Beatles came together in the 90s for The Anthology Project and recorded music together. So the Beatles did work together a little over two decades ago. The statement is accurate.

by marcosnikolaus 1 day ago

Seeing as how they have reunited since their break up, at least the surviving members, it is not a great deal longer

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Are you saying I should have been more precise?

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Im saying that it isnt over 50 years love you think. Its less than 30.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

You could be more precise while still using decades lol. You being wrong about how long ago it was doesn't change how useful a decade can be. You should be more precise because you were wrong lol not because you used decades

by Anonymous 1 day ago

So… you just don't understand how decades is being used

by Anonymous 1 day ago

The Beatles isn't really a great example. They have been separated for nearly .065 millennium.

by GlumSherbert 1 day ago

Sure, we can clear that up - most of them are dead

by Anonymous 1 day ago

It tells you the Beatles have not worked together in more than 20 years. I mean I could see why that isn't a very good narrowing in on time since it has actually been over 5 decades since they were all together because Lennon and then Harrison died. Does saying it has been 56 years since the Beatles worked together really add that much to it when you are looking at that length of time?

by Labadieloma 1 day ago

I actually heard this same complaint nearly half of a tenth of a century ago.

by Key_Waltz 1 day ago

Personally I find that the best way to refresh the word, to give it a little spritz of linguistic Febreze, is to pronounce it the way JFK did during his "We Go to the Moon" speech at Rice: "de-KAYD"

by Least_Mention1256 1 day ago

I only hear Mayor Quimby but that's just what nearly four de-KAYDs of the Simpsons does to me.

by Key_Waltz 1 day ago

As long as you're not one of those uncultured heathens pronouncing it "deh-say-dee" then we can be friends

by Least_Mention1256 1 day ago

If OP is reading this, it's almost 5 years ago.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Made up problem that doesn't exist

by Dulcehansen 1 day ago

It's an easy recognizable concept of time. There's no reason not to use it, especially in the media.

by Significant_Bag 1 day ago

You decided to pick on one particular word, why not use months instead of years, weeks instead of months. Being triggered over decades is pretty funny but it makes you look like an idiot.

by Lucky_Beat 1 day ago

I mean if the word is applicable it's applicable. There's no limit of the usage.

by Marvingulgowski 1 day ago

Good unpopular opinion cause I can't think of anyone who cares. I bet OP hates when people say it's "a quarter till 7"

by Anonymous 1 day ago

It's been over a decade since someone cared about this. This is such a weird hill to die on.

by AdThat3175 1 day ago

Well . . . that's like . . . your opinion, man.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

It's been a decade since I've read a good unpopular opinion

by Existing_Locksmith84 1 day ago

Gonna cry about it?

by Aniya88 1 day ago

Probably for nearly a decade

by Ayden46 1 day ago

Agreed! We should also crack down on people who say that "its been a year since", I doubt its been exactly 365 days, they are liars. We need to be more specific, I mean if it has been 399 days just tell us, don't dance around misinformation.

by Aggressive_South_255 1 day ago

I would prefer it broken down to the hour in certain cases. There is a huge difference between 8700 hours and 9000.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

It's hard to believe that it's been more than 2 decades since Julius Caesar was stabbed to death on the Senate floor.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

I bet you're the guy who drives 35,000 meters to get to work every day

by Euphoric_Copy_5986 1 day ago

No it's gen that's grossly overused

by Christiansenshe 1 day ago

It is a way of trying to make something sound more dramatic than it is. Best example is money. "Nearly a quarter of a million dollars." Ok, so, less than $250k? "The company is value at half a billion." Um, there is a more accurate term for that - $500 million. Doesn't sound so impressive without that B.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

I haven't seen an opinion this bad in 2 score and 3 years.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Gravitas

by Anonymous 1 day ago

You're actually right.

by Urieldickens 1 day ago

What an remarkable terrible unpop opinion. Inches are overused, why don't people use feet? Hardly matters, does it.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Or it could have been worse. Yes but it could also have been only half as bad. It was what it was. Don't worry about could have been

by DanceVarious5568 1 day ago

It's to draw attention to it. I'm not saying they should but hearing "XYZ happened 10-15 years ago" vs "it's been more than a decade since XYZ happened". It's just a more "powerful" word I guess

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Not when it's used as often as it is. It's all the time. It's the base setting now.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Went to a birthday party yesterday for a friend from work. He turned 3.5 decades.

by hersheldicki 1 day ago

get a job bro 😭

by EngineeringMuch3554 1 day ago

Even worse is "Since the last decade" and you're thinking, hold up, it's 2022, the last decade was like 3 years ago.

by Novel_Note_4591 1 day ago

I'm 31 tenths of a decade old

by No-Hamster-6170 1 day ago

Does it annoy you when people say "almost a year" instead of, let's say, 11.5 months?

by Anonymous 23 hours ago

This is so dumb! Well done

by Anonymous 23 hours ago

Yeah, me personally? I like using seconds. Don't tell me it's been 7 years. Tell me it's been 220,752,000 seconds. I need precision.

by Witty-Ice 23 hours ago

I like the saying, "its been a minute" when trying to say its been awhile to someone. It could mean half hour, a few hours, days, months, years, etc.

by Clear-Enthusiasm 22 hours ago

My gf and I have been together almost three decidecades.

by Anonymous 22 hours ago

can't believe people say 2 weeks instead of fortnight ...

by Anonymous 22 hours ago

Bro, what?!

by Damoreelna 21 hours ago

I overheard someone say they waited almost 4 hours for their flight. Why couldn't they just say they waited 3 hours and 47 minutes? 🙄🙄🙄

by Anonymous 21 hours ago

This is an odd thing to get worked up over.

by Helpful_Cause9897 21 hours ago

We need to bring the Lustrums back into the common parlance!

by zariadare 21 hours ago

I don't mind 'decade'. I hate things like 'half a decade' and 'quarter of a century' though.

by Anonymous 20 hours ago

I kind of like folksy use of units. ‘Half a dozen' is popular for ‘six' over here (🇬🇧), people use ‘quarter of an hour' for ‘fifteen minutes'. There is also the more American-sounding use of ‘hundred' instead of ‘thousand' e.g. $2,300 becomes ‘twenty three hundred' instead of ‘two thousand, three hundred'. I think it's fine to use those sort of units in casual speech but you should be more technical in something formal

by Gloveranastacio 20 hours ago

I don't think this is unpopular as such, more irrelevant. Who cares? 9 years is almost a decade, either works for me.

by Anonymous 20 hours ago

Wait there is no word in english for a 5 year period?

by Anonymous 20 hours ago

How about this: Many moons ago...

by Anonymous 19 hours ago

They trying to put the FOMO in you that life is short when actually it's not. Life is not short when you're waiting everyday for your work to be over. Life is not short when you're ten minutes in the sauna or running. They use "decade/s" to remind you about your past and how "quickly" it passed, when in reality it passed like time is supposed to pass. But that's just my guess.

by Greedy-Phone 19 hours ago

Higher units of measure are always less accurate when rounding to whole numbers. Are you going to argue we should measure everything in picoseconds at that point?

by Anonymous 19 hours ago

Why is that a bad thing?

by Anonymous 18 hours ago

You sound like you're 144 months old

by Typical-Bathroom-789 18 hours ago

This is Bill Simmons slander.

by nicolaskayli 18 hours ago

What a random thing to be annoyed over lmao

by Anonymous 18 hours ago

"Half a decade" is especially stupid. Just say 5 years.

by Anonymous 17 hours ago

For the first two years or so it's actually better to refer to your child using months because it's easier to keep track of their development that way. A baby at 3 months is different than a baby at 11 months and 18 months for example.

by marcosnikolaus 17 hours ago

Saying your baby is 3 months old tracks. No one is gonna say their baby is 1/4 of a year old🙄

by Anonymous 17 hours ago

I would love someone to give me this answer 😂

by Anonymous 16 hours ago

It's like the opposite of parents saying their child is 27.642 months old

by Single_Menu1160 16 hours ago