This teacher goes viral for his incredible clamping sheet of slang terms

We could all use "Callahan's Generation Z Dictionary."


The language isin constant evolutionand today's young people particularly useClaw that many of us have never heard. SameMerriam Webster Newly added words like "unplug" and "on the brand" to its dictionary. And, thanks to the Internet, the speed in which the new cultivated family expressions have never been faster. How is someone who does not livesocial media wanted to continue to follow?

Maybe that's why this tweet by the user Twitter@ mewtailev2, A student at Lowell High School in Massachusetts is viral. His professor of sociology,James Callahan, has created a spreadsheet to help decode the mysterious language of his students, the calling "Callahan's Generation Z dictionary."

The Tweet received more than 157,000 retweets since it was published for the first time Monday. After so many answers, Callahan himselftweeted A link to thefull spreadsheet as well as some screenshots of its contents.

Watch closer to the Glossary of Callahan, you will find words like "Clap Back" ("answer an insult with an even larger insult") and "facts" ("I agree with what you just said »). It's a kind of Shakespearian that "the game" means "life". And, despite his alarming, you could be relieved to know "I'm dead" means "it was fun".

slang glossary
@ LHS_SOCIOLOGY / Twitter

By the way, you will see that "spill the tea" means gossip and "kill" means "do good". It is also good to know that if something "slaps", it means that it is "high quality"; And if someone tells you to "stay up", it's a form of support and encouragement.

Oh, and contrary to what you can suppose initially, "We love that" is actually an "ironic / sarcastic response to something bad".

professor creates glossary of student's slang terms, goes viral
@ LHS_SOCIOLOGY / Twitter

"I often seek students in the corridors or my classrooms using words (or) slang terms in their personal conversations," CallahanRecountUnited States today. "In order to better understand them, (and) make a connection with them to a personal level, I started to ask them what certain words meant ... The language is so fluid and each generation creates its own slake Vocabulary. The students created, I'm somehow the archivist! "

Many social media users have applauded Callahan to make a real effort to better communicate with his students, especially given the subject he teaches.

And people are "dead" on how he seriously took this project.

Once the Tweet went viral, Callahan saw attention as an opportunity to do good in the world and invited people to donate some community programs.

After all the attention, one of the projects has been fully funded, according to Callahan Twitter.

That's why a Twitter user offered a new entrance to our lexicon: Callahan, a verb meaning "to share something about the Internet or on social media for the public good and without waiting for reward."

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