Does anyone want five tests on European monetary union?
Exactly, that always annoyed me, it implied the politics was settled and it was just an economic decision, which was always complete nonsense, especially when the person touting it was known to be opposed. Ah well.
"Generation X" is a term that really lacks precision.
Yup, but normally a generation is defined by about 20 years, hence Baby Boom is 40s and 50s (it started in the UK in 1943 FFS, all those yankee servicemen, US was post war but...), GenX became the term for 60s and 70s, then someone came up with GenY.
Doesn't matter what Copeland meant, what matters is how it's used, because all he meant to imply are within the post boom Gen, ergo that's the best name for that overall Gen as, frankly, it doesn't matter.
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Date: 2011-Jul-28, Thursday 20:27 (UTC)Exactly, that always annoyed me, it implied the politics was settled and it was just an economic decision, which was always complete nonsense, especially when the person touting it was known to be opposed. Ah well.
Yup, but normally a generation is defined by about 20 years, hence Baby Boom is 40s and 50s (it started in the UK in 1943 FFS, all those yankee servicemen, US was post war but...), GenX became the term for 60s and 70s, then someone came up with GenY.
Doesn't matter what Copeland meant, what matters is how it's used, because all he meant to imply are within the post boom Gen, ergo that's the best name for that overall Gen as, frankly, it doesn't matter.