"pig" as policeman

[Dave Wilton]

The Usenet group alt.folklore.urban called such dating "Lasnerian," after a
poster named Lasner who favored such a flexible calendar. I don't believe
the term has been used to any extent beyond this group. Dates were also
commonly annotated with an "L" to indicate Lasnerian dating, as in "the 60s
(L)."

See http://www.furrfu.com/magpies/cal_lasnerian.html and
http://www.furrfu.com/magpies/calendars.html#systems.


--Dave Wilton
  dave at wilton.net

-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Darryl Francis
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:22 AM
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Subject: Re: "pig" as policeman

If the 60s ended in 1974 with RMN's resignation, when did the 70s
begin? Could have begun before 1974? Was there indeed an overlap with
the 60s?

Are there examples of other decades overlapping into "factually
incorrect" dates?

Did any decades begin AHEAD of their "factually correct" dates?

How about centuries? When did particular centuries start and finish? I
wouldn't be surprised if the 19th century ended with the detah of Queen
Victoria.



--- Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> Yes, but that was '62.  The sixties began in '63 when Kennedy was
> assassinated, or maybe it was the Beatles, or when we let our hair
> grow.  And they ended in the summer of '74 when Nixon resigned.  (Nor
> is this unprecedented; after all, the 20th century began in 1914 with
> the outbreak of WWI and, I suppose, ended at dawn 9/11/01.)






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