Keep in touch with Generation Y!

By alex miller • Aug 20th, 2007 • Category: Gen X & Y

Ever heard of Urban Dictionary?Urban Dictionary Logo

Probably not as the Urban Dictionary is blocked within the DET network. I subscribe to the feed using netvibes (more on RSS and netvibes) to get the Gen Y word of the day.

Let me share a few gems with you.

wifive August 20

Short for Wireless High-Five, used when you want to give a friend a high-five, but you are further then arms reach from each other. It doesn’t involve any physical contact.

work hot August 19

A person that may or may not be hot, but is the most attractive person in the set of people you work with so you lust after him/her.

Keep in touch with Gen Y, Urban Dictionary has mySpace and Facebook plug-ins.

I also have some resources on this wiki space.

While I was there, I found this very cool T-Shirt site, Busted Tees.

Here’s a few of my favourites;

BustedTees - Cool T-Shirts Big Mistake Busted Tee Yoga is for Posers - Busted Tee

4 Responses »

  1. Christine Martell on August 21st, 2007 at 1:58 am:

    This is great. Love the t-shirts too.

    I am hopelessly out of date with language, so this might at least give me a way to figure it out. I seem to have become middle aged when I wasn’t looking.

    You are coming up as admin in Google reader view and co.mments. Could you set it to your name to help me know it’s you?

  2. Karen Jones on August 21st, 2007 at 9:34 am:

    UrbanDictionary is an amazing compendium; I am definitely middle aged and not a texter, so this is the place for figuring out all the lingo that seems to be arcane only to me.

    The shirts are great; will save to del.icio.us and study them at home (hard to justify on company time). Probably will need to look some up in UD.

  3. Alex Miller on August 21st, 2007 at 3:40 pm:

    Hi Christine,

    That’s a little challenge for me isn’t it? I will endeavour to fix that!
    I have logged out of admin and when I comment I can add my name – hopefully that will work for now!

    Hi Karen,
    Thanks for your comments. Yes I save all of that for home… Although there’s a t-shirt I would like to be wearing today!!! LOL

    Thanks to both of you for taking the time to leave a comment.

    Alex

  4. Mike Berta on September 6th, 2007 at 9:35 am:

    Alex,

    My research is about GenY in workplace training. I’m going to have to pick up the book. The premise that gamers are changing the workplace is very true. Even in the simplest terms of familiarity with computing technology, there are major gaps with previous generations.

    Thanks for the reading list item.

    Mike

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