can we all just agree that the 9th year starting with "199" was 1998?
 

.... i would hope so.

and since no one thinks that any decade ended that year, or any other year that ends in eight, then obviously no one thinks that a decade ends in it's 9th year.

fuck me jesus.

You humans and your sequential understanding of time makes us trans-dimensional beings vibrate in amusement.

re: the question posed in the title: yes. yes we can.