#Word of the year
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To celebrate rawdog winning word of the year per the American Dialect Society, I'd like to tell the story of how I learned that the meaning of rawdog changed in the past couple years.
If anyone doesn't know, the original and long-held meaning of rawdogging was fucking without a condom. The new meaning has extended to doing any kind of action unshielded, plain, or without preparation.
So, about a year ago, I'm eating lunch with coworkers. It's an office job and we're generally pretty professional. People swear a lot, but there's never any innuendos or sex talk.
A coworker is describing a recent trip she took to a vendor to get a demo of equipment we were considering purchasing. Someone else asks "Did you meet Bob LastName while you were there? He's kind of an interesting guy."
"Yeah I did, and he is a little strange. I walked into the breakroom one morning and he was rawdogging two blueberry bagels"
Cue my high-pitched shriek of "He was DOING WHAT."
Followed by my coworkers explaining the meaning and my faint, flustered reply of "ah...well... I'm used to that meaning.... something else." Some people knew what I was talking about, but unfortunately others did not, and I had to face the ordeal of explaining as delicately as possible to a group of coworkers aged 22 to 60
#word of the year#linguistics#this is why it's important to stay informed about current slang I guess
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Highlights from the conference room where they nominated contenders for Word of the Year 2023:
• They put Skibidi Toilet on the projector to explain what “skibidi” means.
• Baby Gronk was mentioned.
• We discussed the Rizzler.
• “Cunty” was nominated.
• “Enshittification” was suggested for EVERY category.
• “Blue Check” (like from Twitter) was briefly defined as “Someone who will not Shut The Fuck Up”
• The person writing notes briefly defined babygirl as “referencing [The Speaker]”. He is now being called babygirl in the linguist groupchats.
• MULTIPLE people raised their hand to say “I cannot stress this enough: ‘Babygirl’ refers to a GROWN MAN”
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[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'brain rot is the word of the year' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]
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Y'all. Kraft just erected an 8 foot tall monument to its own mayonnaise outside of Merriam Webster's HQ in Springfield in an effort to make "Moist" Merriam Webster's word of the year. It feels like an article from the fucking Onion but this is real life
#merriam webster#dictionary#word#words#photo#picture#kraft#mayonnaise#moist#word of the year#mw#springfield#massachusetts#ma#boston
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have you heard...?
i reblogged version with some links too!
For me Stefon looked like crying without context on the last gif and i did it many times already but i guess some haters have to win sobnow you won't know what the last gif was
#tumblr news update#donald trump#malala yousafzai#george santos#cameo#taylor swift#word of the year#bbc presenter#good morning america#keanu reeves#poland#sejmflix#hackers
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Is there an official Welsh word of the year? Like the Oxford word of the year (but better).
only for you anon
#postio cymru#cwestiynau#word of the year#cymraeg#welsh#iaith#dysgu cymraeg#learning welsh#cymblr#tymblr
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THRIVE: Austin & We Are All Smith
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At least right now, I'd have to say that weird is the favorite for Word of the Year for 2024.
#tim walz#word of the year#weird#maga#donald trump#weird donald#j.d. vance#weird j.d.#kamala harris#dave whamond#election 2024#vote blue no matter who
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I also didn't love how the entries for top 10 words of each year started looking like this...
Entries prior had definitions AND attributed events in political/popular culture that spurred interest in the listed term.
But entries after 2016 started to look like this...you get a definition if you're lucky, but mostly very quick 1 sentence blurbs about why there was interest.
I feel the specific terms lacking BOTH OF THOSE THINGS is worth paying attention to, as well...
#us politics#politics#lgbtq#lgbtqia#lgbtq+#lgbtqia+#lgbtq community#lgbtqia community#queer community#word of the year#merriam webster#etymology#trump#donald trump
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Let's do the digital word of the year as well
Words sourced from:
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Saw someone say they don’t “rawdog air” because they are still practicing covid precautions, wear a mask, and don’t eat in restaurants.
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#rawdog#word of the year#still coviding#adventures in dating apps#I had to explain it to my spouse#they hadn’t heard that rawdog was used more generally now#that whol person’s profile made me wish we were more of a match#I’d definitely be friends with them if they were looking for that#polyamory tag#rawdogging#covid 19#covid conscious#covid#wear a mask#covid isn't over
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I’m not sure what y’all did but the word of the year people are reporting a STAGGERING increase in submissions from people self described as “queer and chronically online”
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The Pushkin State Russian Language Institute has crowned its Word of the Year 2024, and guess what? The word is... Пушкин (Pushkin). 🙃
Because nothing sums up a whole year of global chaos, breakthroughs, and drama better than a 19th-century poet's name, right? 🥴
The runners-up were:
семья (family)
искусственный интеллект (artificial intelligence)
выборы (elections)
квадроберы (quadrobers 🤷♀️).
What the fuck are they smoking?
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Congratulations to @mostlysignssomeportents for having his word "enshittification" chosen as the Australian Dictionary Word of the Year.
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‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year | AP News
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