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Originally Posted by Bunk
I'm an 81er who definitely fits this description, but also feels that generation definitions are mostly useless - as people are born every year and there's a gradual transition. Often, the back half of a defined generation would likely have more in common with the leading half of the next defined generation, than others in their own supposed generation in certain respects. This is likely true of those at the end of the baby boom/beginning of Gen X too...
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Another term I learned (man, they have names for everything these days) describes this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusper
I agree that "naming" generations may not have a lot of practical utility other than for marketing; I've also seen it in the workplace (i.e. learning about different generations so they can work better alongside each other).