Publication Type
Magazine Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2017
Abstract
Does “Squad’s OOTD on fleek, seriously goals!” have you straining your eyes and stifling a groan as you try to decipher millennials’ penchant for strange, new words? Alongside a host of creative new vocabulary, millennials— generally referring to those born between the early 1980s and early 2000s—are an assortment of unique traits such as progressiveness, empathy and increasing awareness of social issues that plague not just the community around them, but also the world they live in. Inadvertently, these characteristics are reflected in the popular terms they use. However, this can seem like endless pit of lingo for the uninitiated (millennials or no) so here’s a list of commonly known words, as well as new terms that may just be coming to a "millingo" dictionary near you.
Keywords
Millenials, language, lingo
Discipline
International and Intercultural Communication | Social Media
Publication
Social Space
ISSN/ISBN
1793-7809
Publisher/Conference
Lien Centre
Copyright Owner and License
Lien Centre for Social Innovation
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Citation
Chye, Pingxuan.
Speaking the "Millingo": Decoding the lingo of millennials. (2017). Social Space. 8-10.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lien_research/149
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https://socialspacemag.org/magazines/