A generation ago?? (Anita Hill)

[question everything]

The reporter on ABC News mentioned Specter in connection with the Clarence Thomas nomination and the testimony of Anita Hill, as "a generation ago."

Um... this happened in 1991. Is a span of 18 years now considered a generation?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. They're sloppy with language,

and I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt because otherwise I'd have to acknowledge that they're that ignorant.

They use the word "decimate" to mean "horribly wiped out" and that's just one of the many that drive me nuts..................

[Greyhound]

8. Drives me insane too (not that it was a very long trip)

Penultimate & very unique are two more of the most irritating.

[BlooInBloo]

2. (shrug) Communications majors.

[willing dwarf]

3. Well if you were 10 when Clarence Thomas was nominated

you'd be 28 now. I'd say that's a generation. Time flies. None of us are getting younger.

[skooooo]

4. Pretty close...I'd call 20 years a generation. nt.

[question everything]

5. Well, it used to be 35 years but, I suppose

this changes, too.

[skooooo]

6. 35??

When was that considered a generation?

[Greyhound]

7. Someone born in 1991 could have their own spawn now, so I guess it could be. n/t

[EFerrari]

9. I thought a generation was 30 years. Damn. n/t

[Quantess]

10. At our age, we're expected to be above that.

At first glance, I thought you were complaining about Anita Bryant, from decades ago.