Favorite Gen X name?

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Anonymous wrote:My generation (Millennials) are literally going to save the planet.

Millennials are quickly aging out of relevance. Gen Z is already in the workforce and will hopefully save the planet.

Oh boy. Are you in for a rude awakening. So young and so naive.

I'm Gen X.

Then no excuse for the naïveté.

You're extremely naive. Millennials haven't saved us yet, and they are no longer idealists. They're already hitting their 40s and are more invested in buying houses, saving for retirement, and raising kids...just like Gen X. There's ageism in many industries. In my field, Gen Y who graduated with a CS degree in the mid 2000s are routinely passed over for fresh Gen Z grads. It can be tough to stay relevant at our age.

None of these groups arr going to be doing saving. Thats the point. Im Gen x by the way. I don’t have any expectations of the future generations. They aren’t going to be miracle workers.

Hence the term "hopefully."

Considering this group is missing out on so much of their education due to the pandemic, their outlook is not that rosy. Every generation seems to get hit with a major setback be it war, recessions, and now pandemic and the world keeps spinning. None has lived up to the hype.

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Anonymous wrote:My generation (Millennials) are literally going to save the planet.

Millennials are quickly aging out of relevance. Gen Z is already in the workforce and will hopefully save the planet.

Oh boy. Are you in for a rude awakening. So young and so naive.

I'm Gen X.

Then no excuse for the naïveté.

You're extremely naive. Millennials haven't saved us yet, and they are no longer idealists. They're already hitting their 40s and are more invested in buying houses, saving for retirement, and raising kids...just like Gen X. There's ageism in many industries. In my field, Gen Y who graduated with a CS degree in the mid 2000s are routinely passed over for fresh Gen Z grads. It can be tough to stay relevant at our age.

None of these groups arr going to be doing saving. Thats the point. Im Gen x by the way. I don’t have any expectations of the future generations. They aren’t going to be miracle workers.

Hence the term "hopefully."

Considering this group is missing out on so much of their education due to the pandemic, their outlook is not that rosy. Every generation seems to get hit with a major setback be it war, recessions, and now pandemic and the world keeps spinning. None has lived up to the hype.

No, your outlook is not that rosy. So nobody will save the planet and all life on earth will cease to exist? This is not an argument you want to win.

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Anonymous wrote:My generation (Millennials) are literally going to save the planet.

Millennials are quickly aging out of relevance. Gen Z is already in the workforce and will hopefully save the planet.

Oh boy. Are you in for a rude awakening. So young and so naive.

I'm Gen X.

Then no excuse for the naïveté.

You're extremely naive. Millennials haven't saved us yet, and they are no longer idealists. They're already hitting their 40s and are more invested in buying houses, saving for retirement, and raising kids...just like Gen X. There's ageism in many industries. In my field, Gen Y who graduated with a CS degree in the mid 2000s are routinely passed over for fresh Gen Z grads. It can be tough to stay relevant at our age.

None of these groups arr going to be doing saving. Thats the point. Im Gen x by the way. I don’t have any expectations of the future generations. They aren’t going to be miracle workers.

Hence the term "hopefully."

Considering this group is missing out on so much of their education due to the pandemic, their outlook is not that rosy. Every generation seems to get hit with a major setback be it war, recessions, and now pandemic and the world keeps spinning. None has lived up to the hype.

No, your outlook is not that rosy. So nobody will save the planet and all life on earth will cease to exist? This is not an argument you want to win.

I don’t agree the planet needs saving. That’s a fatalistic view I don’t share.

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Anonymous wrote:Rachel
Jill
Kerri (prefer it to Carey)
Amy
Danielle
Katie

I don't like:

Stephanie
Jennifer
Courtney

Those are both weird spellings. The traditional way is Carrie.

Two different names- or is that a regional pronunciation thing? Kerri and Carrie, to me, are pronounced completely differently

That must be regional. I grew up in the PNW and we pronounced those two names the same way.

Completely different names. Pronounced different. Carrie is usually short for Carlott, Caroline, etc. Kerri (Kerry) is an Irish name.

How do you say it? I have always said Carrie same as Kerri/Keri. I have heard Cari pronounced like Car-ee. But that's it. Every Carrie I've known has also said their name like Kerry/Kerri.

NP it is that you pronounce Ker and Car the same and they both probably sound like Cair/Care with an open A sound. The way I and the other PPs are describing has Kerry with a short E and hard R sound and Carrie with an open A but that lacks the slightly more nasal sound for the A where it would sound more like Air. Google "Merry, Marry, Mary" pronunciations. You should be able to listen to how people who pronounce these differently say them. Erin and Aaron as well.

Don't even start. Mary/Marry/Merry all the same. Same for Erin/Aaron. Where do people live that these are totally different? I've lived in the South/Midwest/West so I presume this is a regional North/North East thing?

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This is just bizarre. There is no alternate pronunciation for these names, even when spelled differently. The PP sounds a tad odd.

Bizarre? Hardly. Your reasoning is bizarre. Don't you know and can't you hear the difference between the short a and the short e sound? Merry is not pronounced the same as marry. Would you call an "apple" an "epple"? Pronounce the name "Fred" as "Frad"? Come on, people!

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Anonymous wrote:Rachel
Jill
Kerri (prefer it to Carey)
Amy
Danielle
Katie

I don't like:

Stephanie
Jennifer
Courtney

Those are both weird spellings. The traditional way is Carrie.

Two different names- or is that a regional pronunciation thing? Kerri and Carrie, to me, are pronounced completely differently

That must be regional. I grew up in the PNW and we pronounced those two names the same way.

Completely different names. Pronounced different. Carrie is usually short for Carlott, Caroline, etc. Kerri (Kerry) is an Irish name.

How do you say it? I have always said Carrie same as Kerri/Keri. I have heard Cari pronounced like Car-ee. But that's it. Every Carrie I've known has also said their name like Kerry/Kerri.

NP it is that you pronounce Ker and Car the same and they both probably sound like Cair/Care with an open A sound. The way I and the other PPs are describing has Kerry with a short E and hard R sound and Carrie with an open A but that lacks the slightly more nasal sound for the A where it would sound more like Air. Google "Merry, Marry, Mary" pronunciations. You should be able to listen to how people who pronounce these differently say them. Erin and Aaron as well.

Don't even start. Mary/Marry/Merry all the same. Same for Erin/Aaron. Where do people live that these are totally different? I've lived in the South/Midwest/West so I presume this is a regional North/North East thing?

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This is just bizarre. There is no alternate pronunciation for these names, even when spelled differently. The PP sounds a tad odd.

Bizarre? Hardly. Your reasoning is bizarre. Don't you know and can't you hear the difference between the short a and the short e sound? Merry is not pronounced the same as marry. Would you call an "apple" an "epple"? Pronounce the name "Fred" as "Frad"? Come on, people!

Spend time on YouTube and listen to people saying Merry Christmas, and the Hail Mary. Tell us how many of them pronounce each word the way your pedantic a@@ is insisting. Yes, we know the sounds are different, but over time, the dialect has changed and in most regions of the U.S., merry and Mary are pronounced the same. GTF over it. No one cares how everyone in your New England hamlet says it.

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Anonymous wrote:Rachel
Jill
Kerri (prefer it to Carey)
Amy
Danielle
Katie

I don't like:

Stephanie
Jennifer
Courtney

Those are both weird spellings. The traditional way is Carrie.

Two different names- or is that a regional pronunciation thing? Kerri and Carrie, to me, are pronounced completely differently

That must be regional. I grew up in the PNW and we pronounced those two names the same way.

Completely different names. Pronounced different. Carrie is usually short for Carlott, Caroline, etc. Kerri (Kerry) is an Irish name.

How do you say it? I have always said Carrie same as Kerri/Keri. I have heard Cari pronounced like Car-ee. But that's it. Every Carrie I've known has also said their name like Kerry/Kerri.

NP it is that you pronounce Ker and Car the same and they both probably sound like Cair/Care with an open A sound. The way I and the other PPs are describing has Kerry with a short E and hard R sound and Carrie with an open A but that lacks the slightly more nasal sound for the A where it would sound more like Air. Google "Merry, Marry, Mary" pronunciations. You should be able to listen to how people who pronounce these differently say them. Erin and Aaron as well.

Don't even start. Mary/Marry/Merry all the same. Same for Erin/Aaron. Where do people live that these are totally different? I've lived in the South/Midwest/West so I presume this is a regional North/North East thing?

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This is just bizarre. There is no alternate pronunciation for these names, even when spelled differently. The PP sounds a tad odd.

Bizarre? Hardly. Your reasoning is bizarre. Don't you know and can't you hear the difference between the short a and the short e sound? Merry is not pronounced the same as marry. Would you call an "apple" an "epple"? Pronounce the name "Fred" as "Frad"? Come on, people!

Spend time on YouTube and listen to people saying Merry Christmas, and the Hail Mary. Tell us how many of them pronounce each word the way your pedantic a@@ is insisting. Yes, we know the sounds are different, but over time, the dialect has changed and in most regions of the U.S., merry and Mary are pronounced the same. GTF over it. No one cares how everyone in your New England hamlet says it.

I don't need to spend time on YouTube listening to vowel shifters. I'll leave that to your lowbrow "ess."

Marry Christmas.

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Anonymous wrote:Rachel
Jill
Kerri (prefer it to Carey)
Amy
Danielle
Katie

I don't like:

Stephanie
Jennifer
Courtney

Those are both weird spellings. The traditional way is Carrie.

Two different names- or is that a regional pronunciation thing? Kerri and Carrie, to me, are pronounced completely differently

That must be regional. I grew up in the PNW and we pronounced those two names the same way.

Completely different names. Pronounced different. Carrie is usually short for Carlott, Caroline, etc. Kerri (Kerry) is an Irish name.

Not different names at all, pronounced exactly the same. All the Carries I know are stand-alone, not nicknames.

I'm a late-70s Carrie, short for Caroline. That was my mom's doing. She started it when I was a baby. I've only met one or two other women who are Carolines going by Carrie.

I have never heard anyone pronounce Carrie/Kerry/Carey/Cari/Keri differently.

Carrie rhymes with scary, so Kerry rhymes with....?

Carrie rhymes with Harry (not pronounced Hairy) and Kerry rhymes with Ferry (not pronounced Fairy).

Carrie, Harry, Kerry, Fairy, Carey, Keri, Hairy, Mary, Merry, and "marry" are all pronounced the same.

Yes.this.all.of.this.

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Anonymous wrote:Heather is so solidly that generation. So perfect.

For a boy, it's Jason or Mark

I’m a heather and was going to be Jason if I were a boy.

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Does anyone still name their kids Melissa? I am one and know a ton of Melissa's who are exactly my age but no younger or older Melissa's.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone still name their kids Melissa? I am one and know a ton of Melissa's who are exactly my age but no younger or older Melissa's.

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Are you Fyakrit‘s mother?

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Amy. There was a little girl in my daughter’s second grade class named Amy and it was adorable!

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There was a little boy named Jeffery and it was weird.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure if Erin is GenX, it started getting popular in the 60s but peaked in the 80s, making it more of an early Millennials name.

Anyway, it was my childhood best friend's name and now my 16 yr old DD's name. Love it.

1971 Erin here. There was 2 of us in the same grade, all of HS.

I’m also a 1971 Erin! There was one other in my medium sized high school. I don’t meet many now my age, but I know a 9 year old Erin.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a little boy named Jeffery and it was weird.

My 10 year old has a friend named Jeff and one named Jason.

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Anonymous wrote:Claudia...so sweet valley high!

Lol Claudia was from Babysitters Club not Sweet Valley

Babysitters Club was Millenial, not Gen X.

No, def Gen X. I was born in 1975. And my friends and I started our own Babysitting club in middle school because of these books.

Babysitter was Millennial?—HA!!! Blasphemy!!! It was for the younger GenX. I read it in 1986-1990 when I was 10-13. It’s a long-ass series, though, so no doubt it trickled to Millennials. But it is firmly rooted in GenX.

Interesting. I'm a Gen X'er born in '69 and never heard of the Babysitter's Club until I was an adult. The big things I remember were Judy Blume, the Beverley Cleary books, Nancy Drew, and Trixie Belden.

You would have been too old for them. My sister and I (b 1975 and 1978) read them in our tween years.

I'm 1973 and never heard of BSC either until it got rebooted. I wonder if I am just too old for it

I'm a 73 also and my friends and I absolutely were into BSC.