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    2 months ago

    What happens when we get to the end of the Greek alphabet? Do we adopt a spreadsheet type notation AA-AZ? Generation Alpha Alpha?

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      What happens when we get to the end of the Greek alphabet?

      That’s something for Gen Φ or Χ to worry about, sometime in the year 2420. If humanity makes it that far, it feels like a very minor concern.

      More likely we just won’t be using this archaic technology for generational cohorts by then, because we’ll be using Esperanto or Universal Standard Hindi or Mandarin.

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        Reminder that esperanto is a bad IAL due to being based almost entirely on European languages, having a phoneme Inventory based off one of the languages Zamenhof happened to speak and having an agglutinative grammar that would be unfamiliar and difficult to many people

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          esperanto is a bad IAL due to being based almost entirely on European languages

          It’s great as a European communal language for this reason.

          As a bridge to an IAL it’s significantly easier to train and maintain than the current standard of English.

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      They can switch to Cyrillic: az, buki, vedi, glagol’, dobro… Then Futhark, and so on, there’s no lack of alphabet systems out there. The preference for Greek is kind of lazy.

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      Personally I vote for using Mkhedruli letters (for writing the Georgian language) solely because that script looks cool

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    Their bedtime story to play on repeat while they sleep:

    “Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don’t want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They’re too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I’m so glad I’m a Beta.”

    (Brave New World for those who don’t immediately get the reference.)

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      I did not know that Brave New World was Omegaverse. Now I actually want to read it!

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    Now these points of data make a beautiful line

    And we’re out of beta, we’re releasing on time

    So i’m glad, I got burned

    Think of all the things we learned

    For the people who are still alive

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    Allow be a suggestion: how about stopping labelling people based on the year of their birth?

    Better yet: how about we leave labelling for packaged products?

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      Fun fact, putting people in boxes is a horrible way to treat people, is dehumanizing, and doesn’t get an accurate look at individuals and their motives.

      Fun fact, putting people in boxes is what companies and governments do in order to organize their marketing efforts to try and sell to specific demographics or to get elected.

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    How did we get so lazy about labeling generations? It’s not like we’ve been crunched for time. How about gen skibidi?

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    Looking a the inescapable progression of climate change they will probably be Generation “Aw, crap, I hate every generation before me”

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    Children born between next Wednesday and Friday will be designated “generation cd-dvd” closely followed by those born the following week who will be called “generation noombers”.

    The media will focus tightly on how these two groups, born mere hours apart can be entirely characterised in general terms that don’t consider geographic, social, economic, or race discrepancies and will set them against each other in a bitter feud that includes housing availability and which slang is the best slang.

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      One of the many avenues upon which they have divided and conquered us. I don’t say this as if I’m above it. Your comment gave me a moment of reflection.

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    2 months ago

    When Generation Stable comes around in 2040 and ironically has the most incomprehensible memes yet.