Generation D

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Fri Mar 30 20:52:00 UTC 2001


larry horn on gen-X SO:
 >But speaking of the construction, rather than the generation,
 >I realized last night (while watching Friends, a mother-lode of [at
 >least putative] gen-X dialogue) that it extends to "totally"...

alerted to this usage by elizabeth traugott, the stanford genxsoista/os
are already collecting TOTALLY examples too.  your citation is being
added to the collection.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu), now wondering how starbucks
 settled on "barista" as their presumably gender-neutral job title



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