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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)
(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]).
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(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]