The New York Times Magazine
9/6/2015
When You ‘Literally Can’t Even’ Understand Your Teenager. The sentence fragment ‘I can’t even’ is the latest in a long line of phrases deployed by millennials to obscure from adults what they really mean. Text by Amanda Hess. Art Direction by Jason Sfetko.
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