http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/09/20/web.oxford.dictionary/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
SRSLY
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/09/20/web.oxford.dictionary/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
SRSLY
WTF?
That's double-plus un-good.
Not Sure?
ZOMFG
...berkleying bobcostas
Salanis wrote: That's double-plus un-good.
That's a double-plus good one, comrade.
Language evolves. To try and hold it to some static academic ideal is futile.
Gotta look at it from a linguistic point of view; do you understand what someone says when they use those terms? A large percentage of the population does, therefore these are "real" words.
Newspeak is the official language - scheduled for official adoption around 2050, and designed to make the ideological premises of Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism, the Party’s official political alignment) the only expressible doctrine. Newspeak is engineered to remove even the possibility of rebellious thoughts—the words by which such thoughts might be articulated have been eliminated from the language. Newspeak contains no negative terms. For example, the only way to express the meaning of “bad” is through the word “ungood.” Something extremely bad is called “doubleplus ungood.”
I like Ginormous. I also would like to see fantabulous put in there.
GPS, 1984? or is that from the film above?
4cylndrfury wrote: GPS, 1984? or is that from the film above?
You guessed it.
ReverendDexter wrote: Language evolves. To try and hold it to some static academic ideal is futile.
What he said.
Try reading Chaucer as it was written - you would scarcely recognize it as English.
Websters changed from prescriptive to descriptive when they issued the 3rd New International Dictionary about 50 years ago. Prescriptive = what is 'correct'. Descriptive = describes the language in use.
What is the past tense of the word 'sneak'?
If you said 'sneaked', you are probably over 50.
Linquistics... Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
OW MY BALLS.
That's asstastic!!
Still waiting for a day that our President's name will be Dwayne Alazondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho...
DukeOfUndersteer wrote: Still waiting for a day that our President's name will be Dwayne Alazondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho...
It's not?
bludroptop wrote: What is the past tense of the word 'sneak'? If you said 'sneaked', you are probably over 50.
what else would it be ? snuck ? damn.. not only has much of life passed me by but so has language it seems..
Another example: ever felt nauseous?
It used to mean 'sickening', as in making others sick.
If you yourself were sick, you were 'nauseated'.
Think of the meaning distinction between 'disgusting' vs. 'disgusted'.
Circa 1965.
I think it is the Oxford dictionary trying to be relevant.
wbjones wrote:bludroptop wrote: What is the past tense of the word 'sneak'? If you said 'sneaked', you are probably over 50.what else would it be ? snuck ? damn.. not only has much of life passed me by but so has language it seems..
No!! It's Snooky
John Brown wrote:DukeOfUndersteer wrote: Still waiting for a day that our President's name will be Dwayne Alazondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho...It's not?
:instantrimshot:
ReverendDexter wrote: Language evolves. To try and hold it to some static academic ideal is futile. Gotta look at it from a linguistic point of view; do you understand what someone says when they use those terms? A large percentage of the population does, therefore these are "real" words.
Slang is slang. Frankly, I don't understand most of the abbreviations that are the sub-human code that text-happy children use to communicate these days. If we don't uphold an "academic ideal", children will not learn the language and be functionally illiterate, as many are today. Let's see you land that great-paying job with the language skillz you learned on the interweb. Back to English class with the lot of you!
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