‘Skedaddle,’ ‘Selfie,’ and Many More Words of the Generations

What if everyone born within a particular generation shared the same view of the world, a view that was different from that of generations before and after?

(Full disclosure: I’m going to shamelessly encourage you to buy my new book.)

Hard to believe,  if you think about it — everyone born during a 20-year period in the whole country having the same attitudes and inclinations to action? Yet we’ve come to believe it, as we knowingly discuss the traits of the different generations — the heroi...