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		ska on Jan 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing It's the difference between "I was born in 2010" and "I am about 10.3 years old". Americans do this a lot too, except at a (pseudo) decade level, e.g. "are you a '90s kid?"

cgriswald on Jan 20, 2021 [–]

> Americans do this a lot too, except at a (pseudo) decade level, e.g. "are you a '90s kid?"

This brings up other ambiguities. A "90's kid" might have been born in the 80's.

ska on Jan 20, 2021 | [–]

Yes, it’s not a clean mapping

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