I cannot report or comment on a television/media family whose last name begins with the letter K. But I did note an Associated Press article discussing possible K-fatigue in today’s Halifax Chronicle-Herald:
Tom Nunan, a lecturer at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television with a long resume in film and TV entertainment, doesn't think so. He has a two-word explanation for the world's prolonged Kardashian-Jenner moment. It's "sui generis," or Latin for don't hold your breath.
Not really. What it means is this moment is unique, in a class of its own.
"It's so vast," he said Wednesday by phone from Los Angeles. "Because there are so many members of this clan, our attention can bounce from one to the next to the next to the next."
What sui generis really means is “of its own kind,” usually understood as a synonym for “unique,” an adjective rooted in the Latin adjective unus, a, um meaning “one.”
I cannot comment on anything related to this family, but I do appreciate Tom Nunan’s observations. I marvel that teachers, commentators, columnists, reporters continue to seek Latin words and phrases to explain modern media phenomena.
P.S. Media is a plural Latin word, as phenomena is a plural Greek word. One medium is one mode of news (internet, newspaper, radio, etc.) and one phenomenon is one appearance of something.
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