#I wanna attend the boozy linguist meeting

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okay, but the way they describe the event does sound really fun

Mr. Carson joined the society in 1991 and likened words-of-the-year votes in those early years to an “intellectual drinking game,” where 30 or so society members would totter back into a conference room from their cocktail hour to shout their opinions. Today, the event draws in some 300 members — a mix of linguists and academics, writers and editors, independent scholars, students and other microcelebrities in the field. Attendees stream into a hotel ballroom, where three microphones are set up. Members are encouraged to make speeches about the words they hope to see win. In addition to crowning the Word of the Year, there are other categories such as “Most Useful/Likely to Succeed,” “Informal Word of the Year” and “Euphemism of the Year.” Indeed, with the wider slate of awards categories, the winter-season timing and its buzzy reputation in the linguistics world, the words-of-the-year vote possesses the social cachet of a red carpet affair, but with conference lanyards in lieu of couture. [...] Interjections continued as attendees nominated words, booed the ones they didn’t like or disagreed about the nature of a word’s meaning. Debate topics included: whether there should be a category of words solely dedicated to the “Barbie” movie; whether “rizz” was doing enough to deserve the society’s continued attention; and whether political terms’ meanings could be grouped under the word “context.” [...] The votes were cast using a live polling platform, which made for suspenseful runoffs. Gasps and cheers swallowed the room when “let (someone) cook” barely squeaked past “(derogatory)” for “Informal Word of the Year.”

obsessed with the infamous "blorbo from my shows" shitpost being quoted in the opening of the new york fucking time's word of the year article without ever once mentioning that it originated in the unsung bedrock of internet culture: tumblr dot gov dot edu dot net slash careers