A verbal tic which I never hear inside a 5~10 year age range and pervasively outside of it: Use of a tech company’s name with a possessive or indefinite article to talk about an individual’s account. “Did you see your aunt’s Facebook?” “I have a Tumblr.” “Your Twitter is good.”
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I would put forward that “the Googles” and further “the red Googles” and “the blue Googles” is a McKenzieism. Never heard it before that talk you gave, but started using it immediately thereafter.
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I am absolutely positive that the Googles is not mine, although there might be some pathway by which blue Googles weren’t a thing until I repeated them into thingishness.
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Do your tics translate into Japanese? Do old Japanese speakers use the same pluralization?
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Japanese is capable of distinguishing between singular and plural in the same sense that English is capable of distinguishing gender of nouns, not in the way that English does plurals / Spanish does gender.
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There’s often a mocking/ironic usage of this within the “tech” industry - (eg, on the twitters) which probably is linked with others such as intarwebz (spelling may vary)
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Where do you stand on blog posts? Is it "have you read their latest blog?" What about podcast episodes? Are they pods?
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Interesting. Seems less to do with age and more to do with level of interaction. Your dad treats it like THE TV, THE internet, etc. (I'm sure your dad would never say THE NBC.) You're cousin is doing it b/c Twitter to them is a phone app, siloed away from the internet proper.
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How about referring to Android phones as "Android"? "I got a new Android."
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