LL-L "Vocabulary" 2001.12.27 (03) [E]

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From: Reinhard "Ron" F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Vocabulary

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'TWEENS' FINALLY MAKE IT TO THE BIG TIME

P-l STAFF

A scant two years after every publication worth its salt ran something on the
tween market (you know, pre-pimple, pre-sulk kids aged 9-12), the Webster's
New World College Dictionary proudly busts out with its word of the year.
That's right: Tween. So, it's official now, folks. Go ahead and refer to your
baby sitters and after-school gardeners as tweens, tweeners and tweenagers.
You have the blessings of the folks at Webster's.

Then again, they were under the gun because, as their press release indicates,
tweens "are one of the latest, largest, and fastest-growing demographics."

Apparently, the term goes back to the 1960s, back when the parents of said
tweens were but a twinkle in the eyes of their flower-children parents, but
they resisted including it in their authoritative dictionary until it became
clear that like Courtney Love, it just wasn't going to go away.

Some other new additions: "Generation Y," post Gen-X teens; "Generation I,"
not to be confused with the Me Generation, Gen I-ers are the Internet
generation; "Screenager," a teenager who is glued to his or her computer
screen; "Silver Surfer," a Web surfer age 50-to-60," and "Tech No," a person
over age 50 who won't go on the Web.

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_Seattle Post-Intelligencer_, p. C1, Dec. 27, 2001

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