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Anyone else sick of these high-brow publications staffed with greying gen-xers trying to "understand the youth", "the shifting nature of our relationships", in
by l33tbro 13y ago
Anyone else sick of these high-brow publications staffed with greying gen-xers trying to "understand the youth", "the shifting nature of our relationships", in this "crazy digital age". It seems every week there's a new Salon, NY-Times, Newyorker, etc half-baked stab at trying to catch the youth zeitgeist and define it. It was interesting a few years ago when social networks were new, but this is so well worn. Is culture plateauing or something? Stop being so heck-darn lazy.
- sdevlin 13y agoYou put quotes around several phrases that are not used in the featured article. I suspect you do not understand this punctuation mark.
- l33tbro 13y agoWelp, your suspicions are wrong friendo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
- jpatokal 13y agoA scare quote is still a quote: Scientist X says that "nuclear radiation" is "harmless". If you're not actually quoting somebody, the term of the art is "making up shit".
- l33tbro 13y agoWow, I love how you're so concerned about my grammar. But you're wrong, homeboy. If you actually read my comment, you'd grok that I was actually addressing a tired theme within the body of recent socio-tech think-pieces, as opposed to directly quoting the article. The scare quotes (which I have ironically employed) relate not to a direct citation, but allude to an over-arching theme. I fail to see how this would not be obvious to somebody with the barely the collective IQ of 11 physical education teachers.
- nostromo 13y agoThe author graduated from university 2 years ago. She's probably 24 years old.