{"id":6774,"date":"2023-05-30T08:09:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T08:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/?p=6774"},"modified":"2023-05-30T08:09:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T08:09:23","slug":"the-generation-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/uncategorized\/the-generation-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Generation Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:29% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Generations.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6775 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Generations.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Generations-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I came across this article which has caused a lot of conversation in lessons \u2013 it\u2019s about the skills I, a Baby Boomer (born 1946 \u2013 1964), possess which Millennials (born 1981 \u2013 1996) just won\u2019t use. With no technology around, we grew up doing things quite differently \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/za.investing.com\/magazine\/boomer-skills-millennials-just-wont-use\/\">https:\/\/za.investing.com\/magazine\/boomer-skills-millennials-just-wont-use\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose this defines the Generation Gap, a term for which I couldn\u2019t think of the German translation when I started to write this today. When I looked it up, I was a bit surprised to read \u2018Generationsproblem\u2019 or \u2018Generationskonflikt\u2019 which I find pretty negative for a phrase which could be looked at positively too. I mean, who needs to spend a sunny day ironing or read a map before a long journey? The latter was the cause of a whole load of arguments I can tell you and non-iron clothes are just wonderful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course the question of correct or casual grammar is one which is being widely discussed in my profession today. When I was young, it was important to write neatly and correctly. However, with the arrival of AI and casual texting, does it really matter if your grammar isn\u2019t perfect as long as the communicative style is up to scratch (passend)? I personally think that it\u2019s important to have learned correct grammar but not to let perceived incorrect grammar ruin your confidence in an important meeting or business conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And despite Instagram, it\u2019s still nice to receive handwritten postcards as well as birthday and Christmas cards. I was glad to read in the article \u2018perhaps this quaint (urig) trend should be revived\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I came across this article which has caused a lot of conversation in lessons \u2013 it\u2019s about the skills I, a Baby Boomer (born 1946 \u2013 1964), possess which&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6776,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6774\/revisions\/6776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}