A list of "new words" populating (or is that polluting?) our language.
For example:
Other informal terms in this update include brain fart, bitch face, bruh, butthurt, fur baby, MacGyver, mkay, rando, and swole.
From mic drops to manspreading: an Oxford Dictionaries update | OxfordWords blog
I do realize that the English language has always been a bit of a mongrel, but, has this gone a bit too far?
New words to ponder
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 8:22 am
by Wandrin
I'm so old that I remember when the dictionary was used to find the proper word to describe something, not what a group of teenagers were mistyping in text messages.
New words to ponder
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:25 am
by LarsMac
The addition of all these pop-words into what claims to be the ultimate authority of the language causes me a bit of heartburn.
Of course the gaudy new home page says it all.
Welcome to the 21st Century.
New words to ponder
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:39 am
by spot
LarsMac;1484939 wrote: The addition of all these pop-words into what claims to be the ultimate authority of the language causes me a bit of heartburn.
Oxford Dictionaries is a subset of the Oxford University Press, I think. It certainly publishes a large range of dictionaries, of which the OED is but one. The OED is only published online, and doesn't carry the newly-coined words in the article. On the other hand, it has an example of fan-girl (written by the sometime MP for Oxford University) from 1934 and "Nuff said" from the 1840s.
New words to ponder
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 11:00 am
by Bruv
Time to move on you old timers.
How would we talk about Tablets the computer kind or emoji or fracking or geek or........and all the other new words ?
New words to ponder
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 1:12 pm
by Wandrin
Bruv;1484965 wrote: Time to move on you old timers.
How would we talk about Tablets the computer kind or emoji or fracking or geek or........and all the other new words ?
