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The 150 new words to get added to the dictionary this year
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ThatGuyAgain
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turducken (n., 1982): a boneless chicken stuffed into a boneless duck stuffed into a boneless turkey
Ok, I see the turd in that.
Ok, I see the turd in that.
CountAntonius
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People can be annoyed at all kinds of stupid things. leave me be.
BananaSprinkles
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But that just seems like making up a word just to make up a word. "Twitter followers" describes exactly that and anyone who has ever used twitter knows what it means.
Bobs Big Boy
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Poutine getting some much-deserved recognition, it's about damn time. Always about the poutine.
It's probably older than that, but 2002 was when the term was first publicly documented as the name for the genre (via a magazine cover).
you just explained every other word that is already in the dictionary
twilitesparklemotion
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What's wrong with words people use being in the dictionary?
Yeah that annoys me too. Why not just make it one gif?
terrisus
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<insert debate about when it actually becomes a "baby" here>
I'm not a scholar, but I don't understand how many of these are just two unjoined words. Why are these in the dictionary? Aren't they phrases? Why not have 3 or 4 or 5 word specific meaning phrases then? Why not whole sentences?
Just seems weird to me.
terrisus
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Yeah yeah.. I was obviously referring to the "highly intelligent" version of the word. It's really used as a sort of shorthand for "the person responsible for this is brilliant" but used to describe the "this" not the person.
I'd say Merriam-Webster is pretty irrelevant in the modern day. All that matters is that your audience understands the 'words' you use. It doesn't matter if auto-tune is in a dictionary, you wouldn't use it in a paper about hydroelectricity, but you absolutely would in a paper about pop music production.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Awaiting the likes of "lol" to be in.
It's used on Twitter itself, mostly to save characters.
Cosmo Clock 21
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I live in Michigan and have never heard of this word until just now.
That surprises me! What part are you from? Have you lived here long? It's not a word I ever use (it's silly sounding and I never need to refer to people who live up there), but I've been familiar with it basically my whole life.
BurnOutBrighter
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Yeah "baby bump" is a silly addition, it's two words.
It has been in most (all?) big dictionaries for a couple of years at least.
Slang has always been in the dictionary, since before slang was a word.
Maisie Williams reaction to the fact that selfie was chosen as Oxfords word of the year 2013:
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Who the hell is this and why should anyone care?!
Please Revengeance next year !!
Incendiary
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I always just called them twits.
terrisus
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Nitwits.
She plays like the second coolest character on Game of Thrones after the dwarf.
So is "social networking" and "spoiler alert". Some are just... phrases.
I feel like only now dictionaries are adding a whole bunch of words now (that will doubtfully keep being used for too many years...) but how was this back years ago? Did slang words like "gnarly" and "cowabunga" make it in there? Have there always been phrase-type words that aren't even compound words, but just two words.
"Yadda Yadda Yadda" was added to the dictionary back in the 90s because of Seinfeld.
They are called compound nouns.
It's really nothing new.
And no, they aren't self explanatory. Baby bump equates to a woman's belly because you know the context. Otherwise is it a bump on a baby? Bumping into a baby?
It's a compound noun because the 2 words used together have a unique meaning more specific than the 2 generic words.
Tracking the meaning of words is what dictionaries do. It's nothing to get annoyed at.
It's really nothing new.
And no, they aren't self explanatory. Baby bump equates to a woman's belly because you know the context. Otherwise is it a bump on a baby? Bumping into a baby?
It's a compound noun because the 2 words used together have a unique meaning more specific than the 2 generic words.
Tracking the meaning of words is what dictionaries do. It's nothing to get annoyed at.
Don't know how that definition of brilliant didn't get tacked on a long time ago. Long before buzzwords and other internet words at least.
I don't know who that kid is either, but boy Steven Seagal looks old and young at the same time.
I don't know who that kid is either, but boy Steven Seagal looks old and young at the same time.
Hey, I'm still waiting for unbounded.
I had never heard it used that way until I watched The Office, in 2007 or so.
And even then, it seems like 80% of the time it could be interpreted as the high intelligence meaning, just like if someone said "Genius!".
thesaucetastic
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fangirl legitimized? looool
Social networking as a phrase has a different meaning than simply combining the two words. There is a (slight) difference in my opinion.
a Master Ninja
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Has anyone here ever used "tweep" or heard anyone use "tweep"? All of the other words I've at least heard people say (except "freegan").
Dead Prince
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capital one twitter called people tweeps lol.
God Dayumm
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No doge?
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