cm0002@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 2 days agoI am from a different millenialemmy.mlexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up11.03Karrow-down14cross-posted to: shitposting@lemmy.ml
arrow-up11.03Karrow-down1external-linkI am from a different millenialemmy.mlcm0002@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square90fedilinkcross-posted to: shitposting@lemmy.ml
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up33·1 day agoJust FYI millennia is a plural form: one millennium, two millennia. So you’re from a different millennium.
minus-squareChrister Enfors@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours 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.
minus-squarePrehensile_cloaca @lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 day agoI was there, Gandalf…three thousand years ago…
minus-squaretweeks@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoMaybe he is over a thousand years old, don’t you see the wrinkles?
minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoThen it would be “different millennia,” not “a different millennia.”
minus-squarespooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoThose of us that were born before 2000: am I a joke to you?
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoI’m also in that group, I only meant to write a direct parallel to the title, for comparison :-)
minus-squarespooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI figured, I just wanted to go along with it as a joke
Just FYI millennia is a plural form: one millennium, two millennia. So you’re from a different millennium.
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.
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?
Dude you’re almost thirty!
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