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Bitcoin, BYOD, Phablet, Selfie, and Twerking Find Place In Oxford Dictionary
hypnosec writes "The Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO) has been updated today to include some of the widely used tech words like Bitcoin, BYOD, Phablet, Selfie, and Twerking among others. Some of the other common tech words which have found a place in the dictionary are 'click and connect', 'digital detox', 'FOMO', 'geek chic', 'hackerspace', 'Internet of Things', 'MOOC', 'selfie', and 'TL;DR'."
Tell me about it, I feel like Abe Simpson:
"I used to be `with it.' But then they changed what `it' was. Now what I'm `with' isn't `it' and what's `it' seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you."
If thou see a fair woman pay court to her, for thus thou wilt obtain love
Please stop talking about Miley Cyrus. That performance was one of the worst things I've ever seen. Not because she decided to try to shock people - Madonna and Gaga have both done that excellently over the years - but because she failed so badly at being actually sexy. Creepy tongue, vag itch impression, ugh. The only decent thing that's come out of it is this.
That aside, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Why? As long as it's properly marked as slang (and I can't imagine it would be called anything else), it serves it purpose of letting people who aren't familiar with the word know what it means. I can't count the number of times I have found some obscure bit of slang in an old book, and been overjoyed to find out that it's documented in my dictionary. In ten, or twenty, or fifty years, when the term "twerking" has basically died the death it deserves, someone reading a work published in 2013 may be equally overjoyed to find his or her dictionary explains the word. That's what dictionaries are for.
It's what the American society wants. Miley Cyrus is putting on a show to deliver. She's reacting to the market, not creating one. She also stands to make huge ultra mega bucks from all this activity!
America = morally bankrupt.
Life is not for the lazy.
Phablet = Phone + Tablet. It's the term being used by marketers who realize that 5+ inch displays can't really be pure phones, but still want to sell them.
Examples: Galaxy Note, Asus FonePad, etc.
Tell me about it, I feel like Abe Simpson:
"I used to be `with it.' But then they changed what `it' was. Now what I'm `with' isn't `it' and what's `it' seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you."
The mistake is in caring about keeping up with trends or slang or "what's cool" in the first place.
Write your own life story, and quit worrying about what other people say or think. You'll be surprised
how much happiness is linked with this approach.
The "educational programming and real news" is on PBS and NPR. Old and obsolete conservatives have been trying to destroy these dangerous harbingers of socialism nearly since their inception. The "dog vomit" is what you get when you let the market decide what programming to broadcast. Keep voting for those guys and one day there won't be any educational programming at all!
I think that was changing the acceptable meaning of "literally" to include that which is not.
You're kid--no, you're not. So "literally" has been redefined to mean, well, nothing, really.
I've already updated what our style guide says regarding this word to LITERAL, LITERALLY: Per the OED, the adverb has become purely a 'noise' word which must therefore be avoided. For the same reason, avoid employing the adjective as well, except in strict technical usage, e.g. when referring to a 'bare' representation of a value of a given type, e.g. 'binary literal', 'string literal', and so on.
I have enough of a problem with _accepting_ ignorance much less _encouraging_ it.
You are not alone, trust me. Words ought to mean things.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Morals don't come in to it at all. It was just flat out a ridiculous performance.
Nor did I until a few weeks ago.
Friend: "So, Lucy starts Twerking and..."
Me: "Wait, twerking?"
Friend: "Yeah. You know what twerking is?"
Me: "Uh... is it like a queef?"
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.