[FRIAM] Pondering the slang Adulting

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I'd be *amazed* if anyone could find THE person who coined the term.  I'd be even more amazed if that person had a coherent definition at the time.  I suppose you could trace it back to the first person to use it in print, maybe look at Google's NGram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=troll&year_start=1980&year_end=2018&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctroll%3B%2Cc0

On 11/14/18 8:40 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Thanks, Glen.  Oh, I see that it has come to mean many things.  Meaning is like that.  But I was curious about its origin.  Was the person who first used the term thinking about the Billie Goats Gruff (WHO'S THAT TRAMPING OVER MY BRIDGE!) [Yes, Owen, I am shouting.}  or was he putting along, at 2 miles an hour, half a sleep in the back of a boat on a quiet Vermont lake?

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