I'm so sorry that .I have an unpopular
opinion but the op asked for opinions and
.I'm being honest.
.Where did that incorrect statistic come
from??? 70% of names are now
misspelled? Right. :roll: if it's
true that people now .E.X.P.E.C.T
atrociously bad and incorrect spellings,
that's sad and scary and doesn't say a lot
about the education of our culture.
I also have to say that .Joilee isn't
pronounced the same way as .Jolie.
Joilee or whatever that spelling was would
be pronounced joy-lee, like the word
doily.
Also, the reason .Generation .X was coined
wasn't because of a lack of proper naming.
Before making comments like that, do a
little research. Generation y is the
same thing, with people born between
1977-1997.
Http://ask.Yahoo.Com/19990727
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dear yahoo!:
why is it called "generation x?"
tina
santa clara, california
dear tina:
it seems like every generation needs a
catchy name, and the folks born in the 60s
and 70s are no exception. To discover the
origin of their moniker, we checked the
yahoo! Generation x category (under
society and culture > cultures and
groups). Right off the bat, we noticed a
prominent link to a subcategory about
author douglas coupland. Curious, we
decided to begin our hunt there.
We visited the official douglas coupland
site and while it offered a lot of cool
stuff -- essays, literary outtakes, film
clips and even pieces of collage -- there
wasn't much background material on
coupland's work or the origin of the
phrase "generation x."
next, we perused some of the other sites
listed in the coupland and gen x
categories, but after several rounds of
links, we still couldn't find any clues.
That's when we changed tactics and
searched, using the boolean phrase
"+'generation x' +definition."
happily, the results yielded a nice gen x
article from the university of nevada,
reno that described the meaning of the
phrase as well as its genesis. Yes, it
turns out that author coupland coined the
title "generation x" in his 1991 novel of
the same name, but he got the idea from
another writer, namely non-fiction author
paul fussell.
An online faq on generation x goes even
farther, explaining the phrase's origin
with a quote by, guess who, douglas
coupland himself. He says, "the book's
title came not from billy idol's band, as
many supposed, but from the final chapter
of a funny sociological book on american
class structure titled 'class,' by paul
fussell. In his final chapter, fussell
named an 'x' category of people who wanted
to hop off the merry-go-round of status,
money and social climbing that so often
frames modern existence."
finally, out of the blue, we remembered to
check alt.Culture, a modern cultural
encyclopedia. Their detailed entry on
generation x is well worth a look.
