01-01-2010, 09:21 AM | #1 | |
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New Words for the New Year
I came across a couple of lists today and I thought it would be fun to share them.
Lake Superior State University has released its 35th annual List of Banished Words: Quote:
http://www.lssu.edu/whats_new/articl...articleid=1905 And the latest words to be added to the OED were just announced: http://www.oed.com/help/updates/latest-additions.html |
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01-01-2010, 12:07 PM | #2 |
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Thanks Nate, I'm going to chillax and read the OED entries, there are some interesting words on the list.
n.b. this is the first and last time I will ever use the word chillax. I'm surprised it wasn't banished sooner. |
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01-01-2010, 12:13 PM | #3 |
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And here comes the wannabe hipsters....
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01-01-2010, 10:26 PM | #4 |
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01-02-2010, 10:22 AM | #5 |
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One I've noticed in recent times is the usage of the word "pressurise/pressurize" or "pressurised/pressurized" to indicate coercion or making insistent demands of someone. I can't help but picture these poor people being pumped full of Helium until they burst
Another that really gets up my nose is the word "lighted" - it seems to be accepted as interchangeable nowadays with "lit" but I find it grating. I know languages evolve, but I think sometimes we should remember 1984 and the goal of Newspeak? - double-plus-good... P.S. Happy New Year to all fellow MR forum readers! Last edited by orwell2k; 01-02-2010 at 10:25 AM. |
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01-08-2010, 11:20 PM | #6 | |
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03-22-2011, 08:28 PM | #7 |
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new word
I came across a new word a few days ago, seemed to be in common use from the (spoken) context but not yet documented - dysethnicsia - to describe the mixing up of people from different ethnic groups, or the lumping together of a range of ethnicities due to their similar appearance or similar sounding names of their nations, obviously inspired by dyslexia and dyspraxia..
Seems to fill a gap as can't think of another single English word that could take its place.. Wonder if anyone has seen it in print? |
03-22-2011, 09:04 PM | #8 |
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I'm a little confused here ... what does this post have to do with a university's word list? And this thread died over a year ago ... why the necroposting?
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03-22-2011, 09:10 PM | #9 |
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What does the age of this thread have to do with it? Members are encouraged to seek out existing threads instead of always starting new ones.
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03-22-2011, 09:24 PM | #10 | |
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If it's the same topic, yes, it can make sense to continue an old thread (though this is not one of those forums that insists on it, possibly because nobody wants to read through 17 pages of discussion to find one new post). But if it's something different -- a post about a word, not about a university's list of out-of-date words, in this case -- there's no reason not to start a new thread for the new topic, and every reason not to recycle one about an out-of-date list of out-of-date words, which isn't the same topic. |
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03-23-2011, 01:42 AM | #11 | |
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as this thread was the one that led me to this forum and this is the nearest matching topic of discussion thought I'd add it here.. apologies to Worldwalker for raising the dead Last edited by bru; 03-23-2011 at 01:46 AM. Reason: eta: (or read) to tidy up language |
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03-23-2011, 02:41 AM | #12 | |
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Edit: ...and welcome to the forum. Hope you enjoy it around here Last edited by tubemonkey; 03-23-2011 at 02:45 AM. |
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03-23-2011, 10:35 AM | #13 | ||
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As Tubemonkey said, welcome to the madhouse. I'm your unfriendly neighborhood curmudgeon.
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Cross-posting, though, is bad. Don't do it. Quote:
Trust me, we're used to new threads. We're used to them being new even when they shouldn't be, like all the people who don't bother to search to see if there's a fix for their particular device problem and just post a thread entitled "Help!" asking about it ... when they could have had an answer from a few moments at the search box. If we can live with those, a new thread for a new subject is not a problem at all. You don't have to post to "the nearest matching topic of discussion" -- if it's not the same, just "nearest", then clearly a new thread is needed. |
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