Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Hideously beautiful: 1980s bridesmaid dresses hit the spot for history month
From Princess Diana's famous 25-foot train to Rita Wilson's non-traditional look, see some of the best celebrity wedding dresses of the 1980s Ron Bull/Toronto Star via Getty The 1980s were filled with ...
Hello What is the meaning of the "by the 1980s"? Until 1980s (1980s and earlier)? Or at 1980s (only the decade of 1980s)? I will appreciate your help.
"The '80s" is short for "the 1980s" in most contexts, though if one were writing a history of the 19th century, it might be short for "the 1880s." As you can tell from the previous paragraph, I don't use an apostrophe for the plural. Generally, plurals do not take an apostrophe. I use one when leaving it out could cause confusion.
My connection with pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first Western TV reporter ______ (permit) to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild. How about just "permitted". Is correct too?
Stereotypical working-class London males, no later than the 1980s. Well, only four months ago The Guardian was keeping the word on life support in connection with (have you guessed it?) Danny Dyer, whose off-screen persona is as geezer-ish as the tv/film roles in which he's (type-?)cast. Danny Dyer is back on top geezer form
Yes, but I understood fenixpollo's post to suggest that those translations would be appropriate, as rock on was also "sooo 1980s". If that were the case, then the translations are fine; but if it is still in common usage (e.g., in Australia or the UK, where the original poster is from), then we should try to find an analogous expression in Spanish. Now that I think of it, the Australians I ...