What are the year born breakouts for the different gens?

[JTsyo]

Greatest: 20s?
Baby Boomers: 50s?
GenX: 70s?
Millennium: 90s?

What about the in between times?

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Your question doesn't make sense.

 

[TheSlamma]

In between are called cuspers

and here are the years

 

[Drako]

Lost: 1883-1901
Greatest: 1901-1924
(Silent): 1924-1946
Baby Boomers: 1946-1964
GenX: 1964-1984
Millennium: 1984-2004
GenZ: 2004-

 

[jlee]

Hah according to that chart, I am GenX, GenY, and Millennium.

 

[TheSlamma]

Hah according to that chart, I am GenX, GenY, and Millennium.

I would only claim the GenX if you can. You can back it up by not living at home with mommy.

 

[Drako]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_generations

 

[JM Aggie08]

Your title gave me an aneurysm.

 

[TheSlamma]

Your title gave me an aneurysm.

Are you and ThatsABigOne Millennials?

 

[zinfamous]

In between are called cuspers

and here are the years

According to this chart, no one in that version of the "Greatest Generation" would have been eligible to fight in WW2...which is what made them The Greatest Generation.

:hmm:

Now, I know some certainly snuck in younger than 18, but the oldest potential soldier here would have been 11 or 12 in the first year of US involvement.

 

[HN]

that's a large overlap with Y and millenials. did they just get lazy?

 

[zinfamous]

Are you and ThatsABigOne Millennials?

the thread title is horribly written and sews much confusion to the average reader. Is that a quality of millennials, knack for spotting shitty grammar?

:hmm:

 

[Drako]

the thread title is horribly written and sews much confusion to the millennial reader.

ftfy.

 

[zinfamous]

ftfy.

I'm not a millenial, and it is still terribly written. While not great, this is much better:

What are the birth year breakdowns for the different generations?

"year born"...sounds like it needs to be hyphenated; but even so, either version would not be a real phrase. It confuses the mind at that moment, and the majority of readers rightfully pause and lose focus here...unless the mind is already confused by a daily diet of snack cakes and terrible pre-teen fiction.

 

[TheSlamma]

the thread title is horribly written and sews much confusion to the average reader. Is that a quality of millennials, knack for spotting shitty grammar?

:hmm:

The ability to use deduction

 

[Drako]

I'm not a millenial, and it is still terribly written. While not great, this is much better:

What are the birth year breakdowns for the different generations?

That's much better? It reads exactly the same way.

Oh, and it's millennial, not millenial.

 

[zinfamous]

That's much better? It reads exactly the same way.

Oh, and it's millennial, not millenial.

It doesn't read the same way. How could it possibly read the same way?

I can never fucking spell mellinium millenium mellennium melosofuckinggoddamnit!

 

[zinfamous]

The ability to use deduction

AKA: "lazy tolerance of shit writing."

a quality of millenials, raised on texting and chat and Twitter.

 

[Oyeve]

GenXer here and fucking proud of it! Gen after just sucks.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow that makes me a millennial... but I'll just go with Gen Y, sounds a bit better.

Though I think millennial can almost be split at around 2000. In 80-90's we were the ones raised with monkey bars, tall metal slides, bicycles, crazy carpets and NES. Then you have those raised with iphones, ipads, ipods, and other i devices, and the oddball android, but those kids probably get beat up and have their lunch money taken. My generation was introduced to video games, but we still played outside most of the time.

 

[TheSlamma]

AKA: "lazy tolerance of shit writing."

a quality of millenials, raised on texting and chat and Twitter.

It's not a lazy tolerance, it's one powerfully and actively driven by acknowledging hopelessness in their abilities.

 

[JTsyo]

Your title gave me an aneurysm.

Does this help?

What are the year-born breakouts for the different gens?

 

[DrDoug]

the thread title is horribly written and sews much confusion to the average reader. Is that a quality of millennials, knack for spotting shitty grammar?

:hmm:

Ahem... "sows". I'm a baby boomer. :biggrin:

 

[phucheneh]

that's a large overlap with Y and millenials. did they just get lazy?

The X and Y line has always been considered somewhere in the 80's.

The 'Millennial' term, I can't even recall ever hearing until like a couple years ago. It is essentially just a renaming of Gen Y, however the way it is talked about would lead one to believe that it is referring to those born in the 90's.

There are no hard and fast rules for any of this shit. It's just useless, poorly-conceived labels.

 

[Belegost]

According to this chart, no one in that version of the "Greatest Generation" would have been eligible to fight in WW2...which is what made them The Greatest Generation.

:hmm:

Now, I know some certainly snuck in younger than 18, but the oldest potential soldier here would have been 11 or 12 in the first year of US involvement.

What's being labeled as "Greatest Generation" there is what I've usually seen referred to as the Silent Generation.