Originally Posted by MicShazam

Is that an American thing?

I'm pretty sure that in Danish, the 80's are the years that are named Eighty/eighty something.
Proof that I'm not just making this up: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%27erne

Forgive us for not being obtuse for no reason.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.