Did you get my message in the FOX news thread??
The "Millenials" are the Greatest Generation!
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Apr 20, 2014
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johnmusacha wrote:
Our grandfathers were the "Baby Boomers" -- mostly drug addled, irresponsible crybabies who nearly destroyed the country in the 1960's.
Next came "Generation X," self-reverential hipster slackers whose idea of "changing society" has been in watching Kevin Smith movies and playing video games all day since 1992.
You seem to have skipped over my generation entirely. I was a teenager during the 70s. Am I a drug-addled irresponsible crybaby or a self-reverential hipster slacker? Or a drug-addled hippy slacker crybaby?
I can't remember... the memory is always the first thing to decay...
Intelligence is defined in a myriad of ways -- and only the most obsolete of those ways measure intelligence by hidebound strictures of Victorian schoolhouse grammar.
It's the evolution of the English language. Got to celebrate it, brah!
Now there is another daft word!
Apr 20, 2014
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johnmusacha wrote:
It's the evolution of the English language. Got to celebrate it, brah!
The evolutionary mechanic in this case is neoteny (reversion to infantile forms in the adult stage).
FirebrandX wrote:
johnmusacha wrote:
The Millenials, with their socially responsible ideals and serious, self restraint, are the next "Greatest Generation." These kids have more in common with their great-grandfathers than anyone realizes!
Except the "Millenials" are the dumbest generation yet. For example: Nobody, and I mean NOBODY from my generation ever wrote "could of". Now it's so pervasive as to become practically commonplace.
"The reason for the mistake is that the pronunciation of have in unstressed contexts is the same as that of of, and the two words are confused when it comes to writing them down. The error was recorded as early as 1837 and, though common, is usually considered unacceptable in standard English." http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/could-of-or-could-have
Your the dummest jenerashun. You taught millions of kids to spell by "sounding it out" and then whine they can't spell.
You know previous generations suck when they believe grammar mistakes on an online message board makes a generation great.
Apr 20, 2014
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It isn't just online message boards. You can find half a dozen (or more) grammar and spelling mistakes on the front page of a newspaper. I consider that to be a sad situation.
Latin spelling and grammar also decayed in the years leading up to the fall of Rome. For whatever that observation is worth.
blueemu wrote:
It isn't just online message boards. You can find half a dozen (or more) grammar and spelling mistakes on the front page of a newspaper. I consider that to be a sad situation.
Latin spelling and grammar also decayed in the years leading up to the fall of Rome. For whatever that observation is worth.
And now we have beautiful modern French and Italian... look at the sunny side of life, brah.
Please put some dates on your ranges for the various cohorts.
Seems like everyone uses different years, except for the Baby Boomers, which I believe runs from 1946 to 1964. Is every cohort 18 years, or does it vary?
Never found a clear delimiter in the reports. Never much cared.
Seems like mostly hype, and tripe.
It is wrong to generalize. There are terrible young people as well as there are brilliant old people. Any generation can use computer (if with a little bit of help for the elders) and I think that is what counts.
Apr 20, 2014
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Well... if the Baby Boomers run into 1964, why did they just get blamed for "nearly destroying the country in the 1960s"?
I mean... I know that two-year-olds can be a real handful, but... destroying the country?
The greatest generation fought and won a world war on two separate fronts, then go on to forged the US into an economic, technological, and military superpower it is today.
The "millies' hasn't done anything of significance other than overwhelmingly voting for Barack twice and patting themselves on the back for their accomplishments.
The millenials may become the greatest generation yet. Only these next few decades will tell. This generation has a lot of burden to bear. The burden, of course, being handed to them by previous generations.
xxToddxx wrote:
Do not forget Ebonics.. That is the most idiotic idea yet.
That was in 1995-96 brah. Way before the Millenials' time.
Many historians and sociologists have branded the youth of the Great Depression and World War II the "Greatest Generation," and certainly no generation until recent times has matched their significance and contribution to American society.
Since 1945, though, only one generation -- The Millenials -- has approached anything near to the greatness of the WW II generation.
Our grandfathers were the "Baby Boomers" -- mostly drug addled, irresponsible crybabies who nearly destroyed the country in the 1960's.
Next came "Generation X," self-reverential hipster slackers whose idea of "changing society" has been in watching Kevin Smith movies and playing video games all day since 1992.
The Millenials, with their socially responsible ideals and serious, self restraint, are the next "Greatest Generation." These kids have more in common with their great-grandfathers than anyone realizes!