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A novel by Lionel Shriver criticized for using wildly outdated youth slang from 1978 in a 2011 setting, suggesting it's read exclusively by boomers.

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"Lionel Shriver (book is 'Mania') has an 11 year old boy quoted as using the words: Junk, pea-brain, thickos, dummies... in 2011. I don't think a youth has uttered a single one of these words since 1978. How do wildly successful mainstream authors get away with this kind of horrendous misunderstandin"
Contemporary literature is so broken · u/quickfluff_ · ↑38 · 2024-12-25
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