Talk:generation
Derivations seem misplaced. --Connel MacKenzie 06:37, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
- Would spontaneous generation and alternate generation merit their own entries extracted from the material already there ? DCDuring 18:15, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
- Taken care of, and Translations table split by senses. --EncycloPetey 20:57, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Definition #6[edit]
Thirty years? I could swear that I have always seen it as twenty. The latter makes quite a bit more sense -- even today, the average first-time parent is far less than thirty.
missing sense?[edit]
Not sure if we already cover the sense as in "the new generation of iPhones... blah blah" ---> Tooironic 14:07, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
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Derivations seem misplaced. --Connel MacKenzie 06:37, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
- Would spontaneous generation and alternate generation merit their own entries extracted from the material already there ? DCDuring 18:15, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
- Taken care of, and Translations table split by senses. --EncycloPetey 20:57, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Poets, artists?[edit]
Despite our profusion of technology and pop-culture senses, are we not missing the idea of a generation of poets, artists, etc.? "Those who can relate culturally in the same age group" might just about cover it but they don't really have to be the same age, or do they? Equinox ◑ 23:42, 4 February 2020 (UTC)