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Thats what i noticed when my italian relatives visited. They sounded so musical! My americanized relatives sounded so plodding.
One time a cousin's first generation german-american husband was giving me a ride home. He's a musician and mentioned jean-luc ponty. I couldnt understand who he was talking about, even though i was well-acquainted with the name! Like he was speaking french with such a strong german influence. ETA - thats why i started calling them all non-boomers. Maybe post-boom would be better? |
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I just had to look up Joneser and found:
The first, boomers I, were born between 1946 and 1954, while boomers II, aka Generation Jones, were born between 1955 and 1964. If you haven't heard of Generation Jones (Jonesers), you're not alone. The term was coined in 1999 by author Jonathan Pontell. So there's TWO generations of boomers???? Too much for my brain on a Sunday morning. Until I read that post, I never heard of that term. So boomer is a broad term, covering about 20 years but they divided this into roughly two 10 years each. __________________ Call me "owl" for short! Hmmm....looks like some good tips in here. "Okay, enough photos. I'm a very BUSY Business Kitty, so make an appointment next time." |
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You can learn English through tough thorough thought though.
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I agree. And I didn't know of Zillennials, I thought that WAS Z. I get sick of the defining generations with letters too. Just tell me what year or decades, what time frame. Are they going to start all over with Generation A when referring to kids born maybe in 2010 or later????? __________________ Call me "owl" for short! Hmmm....looks like some good tips in here. "Okay, enough photos. I'm a very BUSY Business Kitty, so make an appointment next time." |
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I have been told by language teachers that English is, indeed, the most difficult language to learn, for so many reasons. I'm afraid we don't sound (at least not those of us who speak American English) so wonderful to non-English speakers The "King's English" surely sounds much lovelier than our choppy, rushed American version of English does. I had a close friend, his native language was Bulgarian, but his English was quite good. He would cringe at many young women, Americans, who essentially screeched and chirped when they spoke - he found their repetitive "Okay, okay, okay" especially grating. He wanted to know why they kept saying "okay," especially in such a shrill way. I couldn't explain why, I only told him that I, too, found it extremely irritating. My son had a friend from China, a very bright young woman, new to learning English (her English was lovely, btw). But she was really confused by the word "go" - much as my mother had been. This young woman wanted to know what it meant when, for example, we said, "To turn the radio on you go-" and we'd push a button. Or, "You just go like this." She wanted to know what "go" meant. Sometimes it was easy to explain - but many times we were stumped! Every baby is born with a "language acquisition device." An LAD. Something in the brain that tells us to respond to and learn language. Language is a method of survival. We learn by hearing and repeating what we hear. You never took a formal class in English, owl, but you did take a "class" in the sense that you heard English spoken, you repeated what you heard, and thus you became a speaker of American English. I can't exactly say that I speak Hebrew as a second language, but growing up as a Jewish child I spent a lot of time reciting prayers in the synagogue. I picked up Hebrew pronunciation before I could have been aware of doing do, I was so young, and my pronunciation of that language remains very good. btw- as for the way a language sounds, when I was in Ireland I felt like everyone around me was singing when they spoke. Sometimes I would close my eyes and just float on the lyrical sound of the Irish accent. I've heard many, many languages and accents, but never one quite so beautiful. __________________ |
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Ohhh...and French, when spoken properly....*swoon*....
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Yup. BUT some claim that Gen-X actually began in 1960 and went until 1973 - as determined by Douglas Copeland's Gen-X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. And I think Copeland may be the dude who actually invented the term "Gen-X." I dunno. My kids always said I was far more X than Boomer I tend to agree. Generation Jones, or the Jonesers, are supposed to be the bridge between Boomer and X. Maybe. __________________ |
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I did take English GRAMMAR, but that's different. Thanks for posting about how we sound to others who don't understand English or not much. I'm glad I can't "hear" that. As for "go, people say "I have to go" as in have to go to the bathroom, LOL. So a non-English speaker might say "Go where?" As a teenager, we said "going together" which meant dating. I overheard a teacher say "Going where together?" We said "shack up" as living together, but I guess that was crude. I LOVE the IRISH BROGUE!!! SO lovely sounding. Their music is great too, I love it. Scottish accent is great too, Australian, anything but American. We are boring. Swoon is right! __________________ Call me "owl" for short! Hmmm....looks like some good tips in here. "Okay, enough photos. I'm a very BUSY Business Kitty, so make an appointment next time." |
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There's something to the generation thing, though. A lot of it is defined by popular music, I think. The music of the era, I mean. A lot. Pop culture in the contemporary world has so much power. Look at the internet. It's pop culture.
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Beth, generations are defined by music alright but also values, behavior, and WORDS!!! Remember "groovy" and "far out"? You're near my age. The Woodstock generation had the best music period. __________________ Call me "owl" for short! Hmmm....looks like some good tips in here. "Okay, enough photos. I'm a very BUSY Business Kitty, so make an appointment next time." |
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I took 2 years of French in high school, achieved a decent degree of pronunciation, but was lost on the rest of it. My son was a French minor at univ, attended Nanterre in Paris (where the students spoke only French). He says he still struggles with French, but I think it's exciting to hear him speak it.
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The only bit of french i can remember is par le voo francay (told you i cannot spell)
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I think for the most part, other than on mental health type websites, generally, people use the words 'narc' and 'toxic' quite loosely meaning basically a very selfish, horrible, abusive type of person. At least that's the impression I get. And to that extent it probably is a fairly accurate description of their perception of the person - or at least, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt about that. Because I wouldn't take it as a literal psych evaluation of the person unless otherwise stated. 'Narc' and 'toxic' are basically general terms. But people can quite easily slap a label on others using those terms too, if they're say hurt or upset with someone. It happens. That's what I see on the internet.
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