A recent MTV study shows that this generation, while having access to more technical tools than any other, still wants to be seen as funny and smart. And one of the ways you show these traits is by using the correct language. Although you may wonder how some of them came to mean what they do to our young people, over all they're a group of positive words. You can read the article here, but I mainly wanted to give you a sample of the lingo:
"Random": Quirky, what no one else has imagined
"Generic": Way too obvious to be interesting
"Drama": Overreacting
"Just Sayin'": A way to show you disagree or disapprove
"Epic fail": a failure so bad it's funny
I'd like to note that they still use the word "cool" and it still means the same thing. But, in addition to cool, they may also use "awesome, amazing, fantastic, epic or crazy". That's fine...just as long as they hang on to "cool"! It's one of my favorites!
A result that some may find surprising is that the words voted "most favorite" are ones like "wonderful, smile, happy and beautiful". And they mean the same thing they always have! Looks like, despite some dire predictions, we have a funny, smart, happy generation coming up...and I, for one, am way glad!
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