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a 25-year story each cohort swears it's writing alone, then blames on the last
means A generation is the whole body of people born and living around the same time, treated as a single cohort — or the span of roughly 20 to 30 years between a set of parents and their children.
from From Latin generatio, "a begetting, producing," built on generare "to bring forth, beget," which traces back to genus "birth, kind, race" — the same deep root (the Proto-Indo-European *gen-, "to give birth, beget") that seeds gene, genesis, kin, and nature. It reached English through Old French generacion in the medieval period, first meaning the act of producing offspring, then sliding to mean the offspring themselves — all the people produced at one go.
- every 80 years
- theorists claim history cycles in four-generation turns
- naming chaos
- "millennial" once meant doomsday cult member
- power plants
- electricity generation predates the word's social meaning
- slang half-life
- a phrase dies the year parents start using it
- genealogy math
- go back 40 generations, you have a trillion ancestor slots
generation z — people born 1997-2012, roughly 2 billion globally
lost generation — american expatriates in paris after world war i, 1920s
beat generation — american writers and poets including kerouac, ginsberg, 1950s