‘OK Boomer’: A Defining Generation Becomes a Label for Irrelevance

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‘OK Boomer’: A Defining Generation Becomes a Label for Irrelevance
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Remember when baby boomers were the trendsetters of the world? The latest trend is to use their name to mean “out of touch'

As 2019 ends, various dictionary publishers are choosing their “Word of the Year,” a term they believe has surged the most in usage and importance. The originator of this practice, the American Dialect Society, makes its choice on Jan. 3, and this time the gathering of scholars will also pick a “Word of the Decade.”

Full disclosure: As chair of the society’s New Words Committee, I’ll be overseeing the selections. Earlier this week, I visited my son’s eighth-grade class at his Jersey City middle school to give a talk about...

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