NEW WORDS ARE HERE.
These 6 terms can now be found in the hallowed pages of the OED:
- Retweet: Sharing a Twitter message.
- Sexting: Flirting by sending saucy phone text messages.
- Cyberbullying: the use of information technology to bully a person by sending or posting text or images of an intimidating or threatening nature.
- Woot: used in electronic communication to express elation, enthusiasm, or triumph
- Jeggings: leggings resembling tight jeans.
- Mankini: Bikini for men.
RT: W00t, guys! Stop cyberbullying my boyfriend about those photos of his hideous mankini, and just let me sext in my jeggings in peace. [Gizmodo]
sunflower / 441 posts
Lol at the last sentence!
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I love the use of all the words in a sentence. I am not a huge fan of when the dictionary adds modern words. I can kind of see all these new additions except for woot. Just, no.
sunflower / 318 posts
Thanks, OED!
ranunculus / 3285 posts
This makes me sad.
daffodil / 1525 posts
ugh -_-
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Because I’m gonna pull out my Oxford Dictionary if I need to define what jeggings are.
rose / 812 posts
These pop up ads are getting annoying -_-
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Language evolves. I like that the Oxford dictionary is a testimony to how words go in and out of “style” and how new words develop as technology and society develops. It is a record of how we communicate. Sure these words make me cringe but it is a word that people use to communicate so it goes in the Oxford dictionary. I am sure most of these words will fall out of use as quickly as the word “coquinate” did.
rose / 812 posts
@Ashley Nicole Anders@facebook - Its just these Ads that come out form the side and take up the whole screen.
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Today is a victory for me.
…..mankini.
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Love the sentence!
I’m slowly disliking the English language :/ I’m for cyberbulling, and MAYBE woot, but… yeah. No.
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@UnconventionalButterfly@xanga - I get ads too. Fucking aggravating.
This kind of thing, though, in response to the post… makes me sad. The degradation of the English language much? A commenter above said that it’s a record for how we communicate, and communication evolves… which is true… but I feel that we should hold on to intelligence. It just seems like it’s breaking down, getting worse, and it’s embarrassing. Am I the only one who feels that way? Language used to be so beautiful, now it’s… THAT.
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I love when we add new words