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The language doesn't take a vacation, and neither does the dictionary. The words we use are constantly changing in big ways and small, and we're here to record those changes. Each word has taken its own path in its own time to become part of our language—to be used frequently enough by some in order to be placed in a reference for all. If you're likely to encounter a word in the wild, whether in the news, a restaurant menu, a tech update, or a Twitter meme, that word belongs in the dictionary.
[...] In recent years, the richest source of these newly adopted foreign-language words has been the world of food-or, perhaps we should say: the food of the world.
[...] The sometimes perplexing domain of digital financial exchanges opens a window into a subject that requires explanation for many of us, hence the detailed definition of cryptocurrency
[...] Health care, both physical and psychological, gives us many new words as well. Neoadjuvant refers to treatment for a disease or condition that is administered before the primary treatment in order to improve the likelihood of a successful outcome
Source: The Dictionary Just Got a Whole Lot Bigger (archive, because "adblocker" is not their favorite word)
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Global Voices has an interview with Ranjana Chopra, head of a special department in the state government of Odisha, India. The state of Odisha, India, has published dictionaries in the state's 21 indigenous languages under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License [CC BY]. These are tri-lingual dictionaries which translate to and from the selected indigenous language and English and the local official langage, Odia. Some of the languages are spoken by as few as 8,000 people in the state.
In 2018, the government of the Indian state of Odisha published 21 dictionaries in the state's 21 provincial indigenous languages. The dictionaries were developed in collaboration with native-speaking communities for planned implementation in multilingual primary education programs. The trilingual dictionaries, with indigenous language translations into English and Odia (the official language of Odisha), have been uploaded in August 2019 for public use in an online education portal managed by the government.
On October 17, all the dictionaries were relicensed by online education portal Odisha Virtual Academy under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Earlier on SN:
850 New Words in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2018)
(Score: 4, Interesting) by cocaine overdose on Tuesday March 13 2018, @04:12AM (12 children)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 13 2018, @04:31AM (4 children)
No matter what you do, English will always evolve into something that is wrong... terrible illogical, unnecessary complicated and wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @04:43AM (1 child)
Wrong is Right and Winning is Tiresome.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @05:42AM
You forgot "and Alt-right is wrong".
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 13 2018, @07:52PM (1 child)
Shirley, you don't suppose the English language must have evolved from something prior?
If it sprang into persistence over knight, then why wasn't it patented?
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 13 2018, @10:43PM
So happened with many other languages, who adopted a sane spelling (and a smaller number of irregular verbs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Tuesday March 13 2018, @04:32AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha [wikipedia.org]
And now you can buy it at your local grocery store. Might as well throw it in the dictionary.
Given that I had to throw in the archive link as this story went live, I'd say Merriam-Webster is an authority on clickbaiting [merriam-webster.com] (added in 2015 [cnn.com]) to generate AdSense dollars using listicles [merriam-webster.com] (2017 [merriam-webster.com]).
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 5, Informative) by acid andy on Tuesday March 13 2018, @05:37AM (5 children)
No! Just no! If we ever give in to the above, how are we to convey the traditional meaning of the word? "Truly", "actually" and "genuinely" don't come close enough. Besides, it would take away the endless opportunities for mirth at fools proclaiming that they were "literally pissing themselves laughing" or "literally exploding with anger".
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @05:42AM (1 child)
"Totally." [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 13 2018, @07:49PM
You mean . . . Like Totally.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @12:53PM (1 child)
From my experience? "Literally literally".
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday March 13 2018, @05:56PM
Interesting. I suppose "figuratively figuratively" might also serve a similar purpose. No, your Honor, I was not being literally figurative. I was being figuratively figurative. Which is to say, what I said was not figurative. It was literal. It was literally literal.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @04:40PM
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally [merriam-webster.com]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @05:02AM (1 child)
"embiggen" - Request to bash the speaker upside the head with a large club.
"mansplain" - Notification that the speaker is a douche bag and you should disregard everything they say.
"life hack" - Warning label applied to procedures that are likely hazardous to your health and probably damaging to the objects involved.
"self-care" - Standard form of health insurance found in shit hole countries such as the United States of America.
"initial coin offering" - A nearly foolproof plan to rapidly separate many morons from their money.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 13 2018, @07:42PM
"fascinate" - To attach something to something else.
"fixated" - The state something is in once repairs have been completed.
"whistleblower" - Someone who leaked information prior to 2001.
"terrorist" - Someone who leaked information after 2001.
"too fah" - Rhode Islanders' description of anything more than 15 minutes away.
"covfefe" - ???
(A sign fascinated to the wall said to bring your borked Windows PC here to be fixated.)
Teach kids that if it's not in Urban Dictionary, it's not a real word. Wikipedia article, or it's not true.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @11:27AM
Well, I can see the page quite fine, despite the adblocker.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @11:37AM
FTFA:
I would have guessed it to be the name of a demon. ;-)
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday March 13 2018, @04:41PM
"hmm, ooh, mm-hmm, and, welp" O RLY? Why not O RLY?
"Bandwidth" for emotional or mental capacity
"glamping" = glamor + camping
And "wordie".
It's enough to make me a prescriptivist. Or think that Merriam-Webster is trying to compete with The Free Dictionary or Wiktionary instead of the OED (which also amends itself, but show me the wordie!)
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Tuesday March 13 2018, @06:49PM (1 child)
Let me know when the word "you" is officially replaced by "u".
Because then I need to shoot myself.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Tuesday March 13 2018, @07:47PM
Wait until punctuation and capitalization are back in style again. If the millennials' have any children, they will be excited about this novel new thing.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 13 2018, @08:08PM (2 children)
What about using the wrong word? It's commonly done.
Oh, that sucks.
No. No, it doesn't. It bites. Not sucks. Sucks would be a good thing.
I'll be right back, got to go take a dump.
No. You're going to leave one, not take one.
Same for I've got to leave a piss.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 13 2018, @09:35PM (1 child)
Said every standup comedian ever since 1963, LOL. I always wondered about those myself honestly, but usage is usage.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 14 2018, @01:47PM
I am not aware of any standup comedian said that. But I am not surprised.
The "take" vs "leave" is one I came up with in 1980 in college.
The "bites" is one I came up with in about 2000.
But I am not at all shocked or surprised if others have independently made the same observations.
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