Binge-watch...
Kangaaaaa! Can doooo....!
The Register is sad to report the rise of Web2.0rhea this morning, after the Oxford Dictionary added words such as tech-savvy, listicle and hyperconnected to its latest online addition. Clickbait, smartwatch, live-tweet and second screen also wheedled their way into the world's most famous lexicon. Oxford's editors explained …
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Nothing beats taking a charabanc to the aerodrome. Makes one feel most awfully a la mode. I'm hanged if I'll let the blighters leave it out of my copy of the OED.
Must dash, I have to wash down the wainscoting and I want to catch a programme on the wireless.
TTFN
"Nothing beats taking a charabanc to the aerodrome."
Oh, this almost sounds like a line from Curly's Airships :-)
"Within a month a million trippers
Came to Cardington to see her,
As she floated at the head of a mast
As tall as Nelson's Column.
The charabancs stacked up, three deep,
Along the Bedford Road,
To watch us joy-riding
The Great and the Good."
'Her' is the R.101, of course...
Pity about them removing cyclogiro as Seoul National University actually has one working. Of course in keeping with the times the university dutifully called it a cyclocopter.
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What if you are reading a story from the 19C and need to know what a wiffleplonk is ? Removign it from the dictionary because it is no longer in everyday use rather defeats the purpose of having a book explaining words you don't use everyday.
The reason for including binge-watch is so that in 100years when we have the plot for TV series automatically downloaded into our iBrain we can understand archaic blog entries from the early C21
It's just two words, both of which are already in the dictionary.
Combining their usage doesn't add more information than was already present.
I eagerly await other combinations of words being added, and of course each and every one of Shakespeare's plays, sonnets etc. should be first.
That should keep them busy for a while.
Reminds me of one when I was in Germany I went to buy a train ticket and my attempt at German was clearly too good as I got a long question in German back. Turned out that it was asking if I was coming back that day (which was a Sunday) as if so I could get a
Sonnertagruktfahrkarten
The German space character shortage continues!
So there's space for this load of cobblers but still no entry for 'tw*tdangler'. I am OUTRAGED I tell you.
And there are people who defend such words because 'English is an evolving language'. Personally if more such words get in, its more of a language in terminal decline. Gah. But then I do write texts in full so maybe its just my age.....
"Each year we get the 'new words' announcement...
...and each year I despair" see title (quoted for truth - is it in the dictionary yet?)
How is FML even a word? It's an initialism for 3 words that are all already well defined and in this combination no specific additional definition seems necessary.
The other entries seem similarly redundant side-boob: the 'side' of a 'boob'. Does anybody fail to understand the meaning of those two words, or their meaning in this specific combination? 'Binge' and 'watch', also take on no additional meaning in the specific combination? I fail to understand why any of these require a specific definition. Or are we now entering all meaningful combinations of words as individual dictionary entries. Not even limited to pairs - FML is 3, YOLO is 4… how far can we take it:
Oxford English dictionary Volume 9847652
(Entire text of Romeo and Juliet)
Pronunciation:
(Entire text of Romeo and Juliet, phonetically)
Play, fiction
Definition:
(Entire text of Romeo and Juliet re-written in modernised English)
Origin
William Shakespeare
I'd think light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation might confuse the average punter - it could be argued that that particular sequence of words can be used to describe a standard lightbulb, perhaps controlled by a dimmer switch (you can amplify it, right?) whereas laser describes a much more specific cohesive light scenario.
I see no such specific additional meaning for FML or YOLO. At least yolo is pronounceable, change FML to effemel and I might agree it is a word. A bollocks made up word not deserving of entry into a dictionary, but a word.
"side boob" is at least 35 years old, as I remember it from school.
I've also seen YOLO in the context "be careful, YOLO (No reload if you die etc.). "Live fast, die young, stay beautiful" is a little more compelling than merely being reckless "I just ordered £40 worth of Chinese food. But YOLO, right?"
I'm pleased to say I've never heard "adorbs". Long may I manage to avoid the yoof types who use such mutant monstrosities.