[Ads-l] 'Mid'

[Nancy Friedman]

"Mid" was nominated in the Most Likely to Succeed category in the 2021 ADS
WotY vote:

“of average or poor quality, or simply decent, in the amorphous slang of
Generation Z”

Nancy Friedman
Chief Wordworker
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On Sun, Jul 13, 2025, 7:06 AM Geoffrey Nathan <
00001a558db4a26e-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> I rarely read X (nee Twitter) but today
> I found a new (to me) word, 'mid'. Nate
> Silver (the statistician some of you may
> know of) wrote 'It's super mid when
> people make it their mission to root for
> Democrats, Trump, etc.' Matt Yglesias, whose
> work I also follow also used the word in a reply.
> I see that it's on Urbandictionary.com but I'd
> never heard it before. It's defined as mildly
> derogatory--'not very good', 'sort of middling'
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> Geoff
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> Geoffrey S. Nathan
> WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
> Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
> http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
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> geoffnathan at wayne.edu
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