[Ads-l] 'Mid'

[Dan Goncharoff]

So 'mid' is meh?
DanG


On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM Nancy Friedman <
00001b7f50001087-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> "Mid" was nominated in the Most Likely to Succeed category in the 2021 ADS
> WotY vote:
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> “of average or poor quality, or simply decent, in the amorphous slang of
> Generation Z”
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> On Sun, Jul 13, 2025, 7:06 AM Geoffrey Nathan <
> 00001a558db4a26e-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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> > 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'
> >
> > Geoff
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