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Question for Mall Going Teenagers (past or present)


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This is mainly aimed at our Australian players, but definitely aimed towards anyone who spent much time as a teenager in a mall:

Do you feel your time at the mall engendered feelings of alienation and disconnection from society? That your identity was vested from the things you bought at the mall?

I know these questions sound crazy, but please humor me. :)

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Ok this is mainly aimed at Valek, but definitely aimed towards anyone who likes to use big words:

Do you ever feel that your particular choice of words doesn't fit with the target population that you are attempting to get a response from?

Situation A: I'm a teenager that hangs out and buys things from the mall. I read your question and immediately think. 'Double U Tee Eff is engendered feelings of alienation? Disconnection from society? Da hell? Vested identity from stuff I bought? Like matching my shoes and belt?'

Situation B: I'm a teenager that understands what you're asking. However, since I do understand it, that means I spend my time doing homework and going to the library, so could actually care less about how the mall affects people who shop there.

Situation C: I'm a guy who is up at 6:44 AM reading forum posts. Time to go do something productive.

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My bad...I should have asked about THE Situation. Forgot my target audience. ;)

Hey, if THE Situation got a president's daughter pregnant, would you call that The Situation WOMB?! Hehehe.

EDIT: By the way, what Big V said. I was pretty much reading an article that made a rather bold statement I felt didn't take into account any understanding of teenage social life. They just went off and made this assumption. It was an paragraph of BS stuck in the middle of this fairly decent article on critical literacy and young adult fiction as a use of identity construction. Just out of nowhere, this statement about real life. That made no sense. A total assumption.

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Do you ever feel that your particular choice of words doesn't fit with the target population that you are attempting to get a response from?

Am I the only person who, when confronted with words I don't understand, looks them up? A lot of people seem to enjoy wallowing in their ignorance... I do not understand it at all.

And I'd have understood every word in his post as a teenager - despite having been a mall rat. Having a large vocabulary does not at all require one to be a diligent student.

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