Timeline for What punctuation mark is used to indicate the unknown year of a decade?
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| Oct 26, 2019 at 15:31 | history | edited | Laurel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2017 at 0:04 | comment | added | Joshua | 198_ /me ducks. | |
| Nov 16, 2017 at 22:14 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/931284280923234304 | ||
| Nov 16, 2017 at 21:32 | comment | added | MetaEd | Related: "Why, in old books, are dates often given with the years redacted?" | |
| Nov 16, 2017 at 19:32 | comment | added | Jim MacKenzie | A better way would be to use words to indicate what you meant, e.g. "the late 1980s" or "the mid-1970s" (none of these phrases imply that the activity was continuous during the decade or part thereof; context may imply it, though), or you could say "one year in the 1980s, ...". | |
| Nov 16, 2017 at 19:05 | history | edited | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2017 at 19:03 | comment | added | Nigel J | Yes, agreed. I have upvoted both question and answer. | |
| Nov 16, 2017 at 19:00 | comment | added | Zan700 | @Nigel Possibly, but I would read this as something that took place over the entire decade or during multiple years. The answer below, in which an em dash has been used, satisfies me. I'd interpret it that the writer had a particular year in mind, but didn't want to disclose it. | |
| Nov 16, 2017 at 18:50 | answer | added | Laurel♦ | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 16, 2017 at 18:47 | comment | added | Nigel J | Would we not just say 'during the 1980s' ? | |
| Nov 16, 2017 at 18:46 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 16, 2017 at 18:13 | history | asked | Zan700 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |