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The Severely Limited Vocabulary of the Current Generation
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RE: The Severely Limited Vocabulary of the Current Generation
(March 15, 2013 at 2:44 pm)C3P0 Wrote: Now, I ask you, the members of the Atheist Forums community, if you observe a similar trend and if so, why do you believe it is occurring?

lol

IDK
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#12
RE: The Severely Limited Vocabulary of the Current Generation
That's why I borrow from the sikkunt generation. "Brah" "sikkunt" "mirin" - all very good additions to my already supreme vocab.
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#13
RE: The Severely Limited Vocabulary of the Current Generation
(March 15, 2013 at 4:42 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Meanwhile, when I first met online a man I dated off and on for some years, he was surprised I was 14 years younger than him - he said I wrote much older than I was. I think it's the nature of every generation to assume that their vocabulary is wider than the next.

That might have included things other than vocabulary. I was shocked to discover how young Cthulhu Dreaming is. I expected someone considerably older.


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Of course it did - but he specifically mentioned vocabulary, among other things.
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#15
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You must realize that my years of living count up to fourteen. I believe that gives me credit.
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I believe that gives you no reason to complain about your generation's vocabulary - you're not even old enough to know most of your own language's vocabulary.
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RE: The Severely Limited Vocabulary of the Current Generation
(March 15, 2013 at 9:27 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I believe that gives you no reason to complain about your generation's vocabulary - you're not even old enough to know most of your own language's vocabulary.

And what gives you reason to believe that?
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Call it a hunch.
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#19
RE: The Severely Limited Vocabulary of the Current Generation
In english class (the top Tier one, but not the 'english lit' class) we watched Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and as part of the end of year exam, analysed posters. This is in the year before final exams (and that year, year 11, now counts somewhat towards your final grade IIRC).

Right there is your problem.
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#20
RE: The Severely Limited Vocabulary of the Current Generation
Here, schools are usualy named after scientists and famous poets and writers, sometimes even figures with historic significants.
I once was in a place where the highschools were called "Göthe Gymnasium" and Schiller Gymnasium"

Gymnasium, being the german word for "highschool" and Göthe and Schiller being 2 of the most importent german poets in the history of our language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe

Anyway I recall a conversation between two students at a trainstation:

Bist du Schiller?
Nein.
Bist du Göthe?
Ja, und bist du Schiller?

May sound weird, but to me it gave the idea that language was devolving a kick in the but.
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