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United Arab Emirates116 Posts
Language is one of the most dynamic elements of culture. There was once a time when it was fashionable to say "betwixt here and there", and a small rock was called a "stane", not a stone. In short, words come, words go.
For this year's round of words that will make it to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (COED), some 200 words will not be anymore included in the COED to make way for the 400 new ones. (NOTE: This practice of dropping words only applies to COED as it has to maintain a certain page count to still be properly labeled concise. For words old and new, fashionable and obsolete, you can still find them all in the standard Oxford English Dictionary).
Some of the 400 new words include: noob, woot, sexting, mankini, lol, slow food, jeggings, upcycle, and nurdle. Among the 200 words that won't make the cut are the following, with definition:
brabble: paltry noisy quarrel
growlery: place to growl in, private room, den (“what we might call a man cave these days,” Stevenson wrote on the Oxford University Press blog)
cassette player: a machine for playing back or recording audio cassette
Eurocommunism: a European form of communism which advocates the preservation of many elements of Western liberal democracy
halier: a former monetary unit of Slovakia, equal to one hundredth of a koruna [Slovakia now has the euro]
glocalization: the practice of conducting business according to both local and global considerations
script kiddie: a person who uses existing scripts or codes to hack into computers, lacking the expertise to write their own
threequel: the third film, book, event, etc. in a series; a second sequel
video jockey: a person who introduces and plays music videos on television
S-VHS: super video home system, an improved version of VHS
millennium bug: an inability in older computing software to deal correctly with dates of 1 January 2000 or later.
Well, "millenium bug" sounds so ancient today, lol.
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United States5162 Posts
Taking out old, barely used words only makes sense, but something that caught my eye was a few words that aren't really that old or archaic, or in the case of script kiddie, seems like it should have never been there in the first place.
Cassette player, video jockey, and millennium bug are all words that were very common at one point and then quickly disappeared. I don't know if this has always been the case, but is it common for the OED to add words and then remove words that arise and rise in the span of a generation? It seems like with fast pace of technology that words will quickly be adopted as new things become commonplace and just as quickly disappear once new tech replaces it.
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Oh man I am using all of the new made words in my English papers. When she tells me "That isn't a word" I will be "Look it up bitch noob"
just wait
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yeah dont see the point in removing a word only because the technology is obsolete or old.
vj and cassette player should easily still be words, lol.
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On August 22 2011 11:13 mrscheng wrote:
yeah dont see the point in removing a word only because the technology is obsolete or old.
vj and cassette player should easily still be words, lol.
They are still words, do you have issues comprehending the original post?
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On August 22 2011 11:19 MozzarellaL wrote:Show nested quote +On August 22 2011 11:13 mrscheng wrote:
yeah dont see the point in removing a word only because the technology is obsolete or old.
vj and cassette player should easily still be words, lol. They are still words, do you have issues comprehending the original post?
Served.
What the hell does "nurdle" mean? That shit should be restricted to UD, I think.
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