The phrase "a kind of hey" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used informally to express a casual greeting or acknowledgment, often in a playful or light-hearted manner.
Example: "When I saw my friend across the street, I waved and shouted, 'Hey! A kind of hey to you!'"
Alternatives: "sort of a hello" or "a type of greeting".
In a kind of "Hey baby, you should let me show you how good it feels when I nurse you better... or I'll whack you again with a golf club" kind of way.
It wasn't so much about me having any particular expectations of what would happen when I made the original kernel sources available: a lot of the impetus for releasing it was simply a kind of "hey, look at what I've done".
"When we first looked at each other there was definitely a kind of, 'Hey, this is the place!' I felt that anyway," he said.
For some reason or another, there is a sense of good will and a kind of hey-gang-let's-put-on-a-show-in-the-barn anticipation around the project.
For some reason, this is mostly being treated as a kind of nostalgic joke – hey, millennials, remember the 90s?
School of Hard Sums could have been laughing at the nerds, but actually it's more about revealing a kind of geek chic and saying, 'Hey, that's amazing, you can do these extraordinary things using maths'".
We catch our breaths every so often and say with a kind of smiling wonder and delight 'Hey!
God, won't that be neat!" It's kind of, "Hey, this is going to be great".
What if we could do this?" All of the great ideas are kind of, "Hey, what if we could do this?" Q. Let's say you're interviewing me for a job.
Employing the concept of the Middle Road taught me to appreciate a kind of quiet joy, one that says, "Hey, this may not be the highest of highs, but it is still very pleasant and comforting.
The picture above– snapped at a Beijing newsstand where Scarlett Johansson and Sarah Jessica Parker were the only other faces I recognized– is a good metaphor for the kind of hey -don't-look-at-us!, easing-into-they -doet approach the Web 2.0 generation is taking.
