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Tech Buzzwords Added to Dictionaries

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-forget-web20 dept.

Mark Owen writes "With technology buzzwords becoming so commonly used in daily life, Webster and Oxford have both begun to include some new terms in their latest editions. Some of their newest additions include: adware, biodiesel, codec, digicam, google (as a verb), geocaching, hacktivism, mash-up, rewriteable, ringtone, spyware, and texting."

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  1. 'Texting' is a Noun? by eldavojohn · · Score: 3, Insightful
    texting, n.
    I thought 'texting' would be a verb. As in, "I just got an $1800 ticket for texting while driving" or "my teacher sent me to the principles office for texting during class."

    Maybe I'm wrong, I'm a better ones-and-zeros-smith than a wrodsmith.

    from the don't-forget-web20 dept.
    What the hell is web-twenty? Is that the time of day when all the pot heads get off their asses and sit at their iMacs and work on their crappy Phish tribute GeoCities site with flying toasters and images of Jerry Garcia?
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    My work here is dung.