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In response to "Alt history poll: what would our age group have been called if Douglas Copland never wrote "Generation X"?" by slipping jimmy

I think it was something like post-ww2 baby boom. doesn't have quite the same ring to it. -- nm

Posted by b. (aka starrynit) Jun 10 '15, 15:34

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Thinking more, slackers was the other one they liked to throw around before Gen X caught on for good -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 10, 15:35 6
- google says also "the lost generation" but we're too ennui-ridden to get upset about that. -- nm - b. Jun 10, 15:37 5
  - That was the generation who fought in the First World War -- nm - Roger More Jun 10, 15:38 4
    - actually a little younger than that. I typed the above without thinking, sorry. this dude's page I was looking at messed me up. nm but: -- (link) - b. Jun 10, 15:44 3
      - I'm not sure. Hemingway was born in 1899, and by 1918 he was an ambulance driver in the US Army. But maybe "came of age" is a better description than - Roger More Jun 10, 16:14 1
        
        that's been my understanding, but I now see that may be because I grew up in the u.s. it looks like it's different in other places. (link) - b. Jun 10, 16:26
      - Something in the grunge-Nirvana-lolapalooza world would have probably stuck eventually -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 10, 16:02

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