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Suggested Names for Those Who Are Not a Millennial but Not Quite Gen X

What Do You Call the People Who Are in Gen X/Millennial Label Limbo? This graphic up there puts my age group squarely in Millennial, but there are a lot who put me as a young Gen-Xer.
I don't feel like I fully belong in either! There've been some fun-to-read pieces on this "microgeneration" who sit on the cusp of either Gen X or Millennial, and interesting monikers for us, too.

"Generation Jordan Catalano" is one, in reference to the short-lived but much beloved TV series "My So-Called Life" starring Claire Danes. So beloved, I think, because it captures that time period for those who were in high school/middle school during the height of the Alternative Music Grunge Era. Gen X is the most "Existential Crisis" of Generations. To be a teenager during the hey day of such malaise among the people slightly older than you is to double down on the Existential Crisis that is Teenagerhood. MSCL captured that "ugh"-ness of the time an…

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Gather Your Friends to Play a Round of "Campaign Sexism BINGO" for the Next Debate! With a historic number of women running for President in 2020, there is no end to the amount of sexism we will hear from the punditry. Rather than throwing things across the room in frustration, let's ridicule their stupid sexism! Join me in playing Sexism Bingo!

Laughing is a good antidote to all this madness. In that vein, for the next debate, create your own Sexism Bingo Card by following the link. You can even make a copy to keep in the Sexism Bingo folder with you name/Twitter alias. Use the hashtag #sexismbingo when you hear a pundit, or view a pundit's social media post, that fills a square on you Campaign Sexism Bingo card.

We can combat all the BS these talking heads spew during and after the debates by shame their tired tropes. The winner of Campaign Sexism Bingo gets to Smash the Patriarchy the hardest. Ha!

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What Is the Difference Between and Epithet and a Kenning?

Differentiating Between Epithets and Kennings
Okay, let's try to differentiate between Epithets and Kennings. It's tough when this stuff is so similar.

What is an Epithet (in the literary sense)?
Epithet (plural epithets) - the "literary" epithet definitions are as follows:

1. A term used to characterize a person or thing. The adjective "Terrible" in Ivan the Terrible.

2. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person. The Young Pretender for Charles Edward Stuart.
What is a Kenning?
Kenning (plural, kennings) is similar - a kenning is a kind of epithet, like a simile is a kind of metaphot; I'd say the difference is in directness.

kenning- use of a roundabout phrase for a common thing, eg 'whale's land' for 'sea'. It was very common in Anglo-Saxon verse. It is a type of circumlocution, in the form of a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun.
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