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No "Ungoogleable" In Swedish Lexicon, Thanks to Google

Posted by timothy on from the english-is-more-open-source dept.

jfruh writes "The Swedish Language Council is a semi-official, government funded body that regulates, cultivates, and tracks changes to the Swedish language. Every year it releases a list of new words that have crept into Swedish, and one of 2012's entries was 'ogooglebar' — 'ungoogleable,' meaning something that can't be found with a search engine. After Google demanded that the definition be changed and the Council add a disclaimer about Google's trademark, the Council has instead decided to remove the word from the list altogether."

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  1. A paradox? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does that mean that the word "ogooglebar" suddenly became ungoogleable?

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    1. Re:A paradox? by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

      It probably was until Google made an issue out of it.

      What's the phrase I'm looking for here? .......Like some performer that doesn't want her mansion photographed?

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    2. Re:A paradox? by GameboyRMH · · Score: 4, Funny

      A pile of trees...so like a very large bundle of sticks?

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  2. Re:Good? by QilessQi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, come on.... you just have to embiggen your vocabulary a little. And 'ogooglebar' is a perfectly cromulent word.

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  3. Re:Good? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Depratumate?

  4. Re:Good? by i+kan+reed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps I'm getting old, but I'm tiered of these new fangled words that keep geting pushed into common use.

    I'll keep this brief: yes, that is just you getting old.