[Ads-l] "Gen Z" formalized at Pew

[paul johnson]

How about A² or A2

On 1/17/2019 12:54 PM, Andy Bach wrote:
>> For the generation after Z, I suggest *Generation Yuzz*, drawing on
> Geisel's groundbreaking *On Beyond Zebra*
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Beyond_Zebra!
> I always said "sue-ss" but it was written about him at Dartmouth (where he
> was busted for drinking gin in the dorm):
> “You’re wrong as the deuce,
> and you shouldn’t rejoice.
> If you’re calling him Seuss –
> he pronounces it Soice.”
> http://blog.tavbooks.com/?p=2165
>
> Though I guess he changed it.
>
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:27 AM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> But what about the next generation and the ones beyond that?
>>
>> For the generation after Z, I suggest *Generation Yuzz*, drawing on
>> Geisel's groundbreaking *On Beyond Zebra* <
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Beyond_Zebra!>.
>>
>> Yuzz <http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/seuss/yuzz.gif> is the first
>> of the 19 named letters reported there, along with an unnamed, extremely
>> complex twentieth. Using the Pew Institute's current generational period of
>> 16 years, these will suffice for just over three centuries, by which time
>> research and analysis methods will  be far more advanced than at present
>> (assuming that they are not gone entirely, along with the rest of
>> civilization).
>>
>> Hopefully,
>> Mark Mandel
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 10:42 AM Kiesling, Scott F <kiesling at pitt.edu wrote:
>>
>>> Because it's become what everyone else says (basically):
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/
>>> --
>>> Scott F. Kiesling, PhD
>>> Professor
>>> Chair, Department of Linguistics
>>>
>>>
>>> Email: kiesling at pitt.edu<mailto:kiesling at pitt.edu>
>>> Web:
>>> http://sfkiesling.com
>>> http://www.linguistics.pitt.edu
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>>>
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