they have this very proper, very serious way of speaking that is always grammatically correct, politically correct, proper punctuation in emails, and they don’t have “sayings” or slang in the way boomers and millennials do
Date: July 13th, 2026 8:51 PM Author: Junko Enoshima
The kids on My So-Called Life were supposed to be very young Gen X and they said "like" every sentence. A few years later, the kids on Dawson's Creek, who were canonically very old millennials, spoke complete grammatical sentences with no filler words.