Oxford Dictionaries Word Of The Year 2015 Is...

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Link: Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is...

 

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That’s right – for the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a pictograph: 😂, officially called the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji...

[unixman_again]

JH Murray must be spinning in his grave! I wonder how they are going to put that into the actual dictionary?

[DJ-1701]

If that is the case, they need to add this to the dictionary...

[DalekSec]

So the word of the year.... isn't a word?

[fairm010]

All i have to say to that is.

 

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All i have to say to that is.

 

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More like:

 

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[Grey-gear]

are emojis words now? Do school need to start teaching kids about them? How high of a scrabble score does it get? will it be in spelling test? How do you spell a picture?

 

just too

 

No now I'm doing it

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Link: Word of the Year 2017 is… [OxfordDictionaries.COM]

 

Youthquake.

 

...The noun, youthquake, is defined as ‘a significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people’.

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Link: Word of the Year 2018 is... [OxfordDictionaries.COM]

 

The Oxford Word of the Year 2018 is… toxic.

[unixman_again]

The word of the year for 2018 is misinformation

 

(Just how many words of the year are there?)

[Garacesh]

The word of the year for 2018 is misinformation

 

Dictionary.com defines misinformation as “false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead.” Which separates it from disinformation, which is described as “deliberately misleading or biased information”

Well, at least I learned something from this one

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Link: Oxford Word of the Year 2022 | Oxford Languages

 

The public has spoken! After opening the choice of Word of the Year up to English speakers for the first time in its history, over the last two weeks more than 300,000 people cast their vote.

 

The Oxford Word of the Year is a word or expression reflecting the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the past twelve months, one that has potential as a term of lasting cultural significance. Supported by evidence of real language usage, Oxford’s editors track candidates as they emerge throughout the year, analyzing frequency statistics and other language data in the Oxford English Corpus. Previous words have included vax (2021), climate emergency (2019), and selfie (2013).

 

And the winner is...

 

Goblin mode

 

‘Goblin mode’ – a slang term, often used in the expressions ‘in goblin mode’ or ‘to go goblin mode’ – is ‘a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.’

 

Although first seen on Twitter in 2009, goblin mode went viral on social media in February 2022, quickly making its way into newspapers and magazines after being tweeted in a mocked-up headline. The term then rose in popularity over the months following as Covid lockdown restrictions eased in many countries and people ventured out of their homes more regularly. Seemingly, it captured the prevailing mood of individuals who rejected the idea of returning to ‘normal life’, or rebelled against the increasingly unattainable aesthetic standards and unsustainable lifestyles exhibited on social media.

 

The Oxford Corpus lists many vivid examples of goblin mode, including “Goblin mode is like when you wake up at 2am and shuffle into the kitchen wearing nothing but a long t-shirt to make a weird snack, like melted cheese on saltines”, as quoted in The Guardian newspaper. More recently, an opinion piece in The Times stated that “too many of us… have gone ‘goblin mode’ in response to a difficult year.”

 

Speaking at a special event to announce this year’s approach to selecting the Oxford Word of the Year, Ben Zimmer, American linguist and lexicographer, said: “Goblin Mode really does speak to the times and the zeitgeist, and it is certainly a 2022 expression. People are looking at social norms in new ways. It gives people the license to ditch social norms and embrace new ones.”

 

Since the launch of the people’s choice vote, ‘goblin mode’ has captured the attention of many communities online, having been a runaway favourite on social media and within online publications, such as PC Gamer, which urged followers to “put aside [their] petty differences and vote for ‘goblin mode’.”

 

Casper Grathwohl, President, Oxford Languages, says:

 

“We were hoping the public would enjoy being brought into the process, but this level of engagement with the campaign caught us totally by surprise. The strength of the response highlights how important our vocabulary is to understanding who we are and processing what’s happening to the world around us. Given the year we’ve just experienced, ‘Goblin mode’ resonates with all of us who are feeling a little overwhelmed at this point. It’s a relief to acknowledge that we’re not always the idealized, curated selves that we’re encouraged to present on our Instagram and TikTok feeds. This has been demonstrated by the dramatic rise of platforms like BeReal where users share images of their unedited selves, often capturing self-indulgent moments in goblin mode. People are embracing their inner goblin, and voters choosing ‘goblin mode’ as the Word of the Year tells us the concept is likely here to stay.”...

 

The article then moves on to the second, and third placed words: ‘metaverse’ and ‘#IStandWith’

[jthompson]

Never heard of it before.

[andy_b]

Never heard of it before.

 

Me neither, or anyone I have asked.

 

Seems it maybe the result of a number of online campaigns:

 

https://www.pcgamer.com/we-must-put-aside-our-petty-differences-and-vote-for-goblin-mode-over-metaverse-as-the-oxford-word-of-the-year/

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[jthompson]

That's brave. Either that, or that they pre-emptively disqualified Wordy McWordface from the results.

[Garacesh]

I've heard of enough different terms that I kind of get it.

It's definitely better than the various proprietary soul-less ad-filled garbo metaverses that everyone and their mums seems to want to make.

[Norphy]

I was under the impression that "Gaslighting" was the word of the year, then I looked it up and saw that it was the Merriam-Webster word of the year.

 

Yeah, I think I'm going to go with our American cousins on this one.