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[Inanna]

Is it bad that out of all those words I only know what creeping means?

 

[Riposte]

If they delay it by a mere 5 years likely none of these words will be around.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Are people actually upset?

 

[Vermillion]

If they delay it by a mere 5 years likely none of these words will be around.

Yeah. They only live once, too.
...
TOLO

 

[Syph Medwes]

The list of words is depressing.

Indeed. The inclusion of "cray" though is quite amusing.
Why is "yolo" allowed though? It's an acronym...

 

[waypoetic]

Everytime i read that word i hear Kanye West's voice in my head. Two things i hate at once.

 

[BGBW]

I though tweep was a misspelling or twerp.

They should also include "choc ice" to prevent someone misusing it in the future and getting arrested.

They should include older words that have stood the test of time (well a couple of years) then current fad words that will be replacement by yesterday. I of course suggest "moe" since everyone gets the definition wrong.

 

[replicashooter]

It's official, the internet killed the English language. All we are left with now is a lingustic merkin.

 

[BocoDragon]

Fuck YOLO.

YOLT is more like it!

 

[ghst]

nice try dictionary, but i'll just close my eyes.

 

[chronos4590]

Society trying to make relevancy out of pretty much anything, just because it's popular on the internet is beyond asinine. Without an once of hyperbole, this is actually borderline painful >_>

 

[Jack Scofield]

I don't mind, and neither should anyone else. Dictionaries don't tell you how to use words, but rather how words are used. The English language is evolving, and with its evolution come new words.

I swear, if some of you were alive a few centuries ago, you'd be complaining about "eyeball" entering the dictionary. "Egads! This tome of words doth include yet another fictional word by Sir Shakespeare. Fornicate m'lyfe."

 

[CountAntonius]

Fuck sakes don't encourage them.

 

[Plywood]

YOLO? since when the fuck is it okay to put acronyms into dictionaries?

Maybe you've never heard of LASER.

 

[Bento]

Why no Wololo?

 

[Vermillion]

Maybe you've never heard of LASER.

Plywood
Read a book mothafuckah.
(Today, 04:31 PM)

 

[Plywood]

Plywood
Read a book mothafuckah.
(Today, 04:31 PM)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser

The term "laser" originated as an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.[1]

Unless you were agreeing with me in which case I understand.

 

[Mr. B Natural]

Maybe you've never heard of LASER.

Laser, Sonar are all inventions: things.

YOLO is a sentence in an acronym and nothing more. It's laziness and nothing more. Its definition is the word.

This is the definition of laser:
a device that produces a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic, and coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate their energy in phase.

You really don't see the difference here?

 

[TheJollyCorner]

I still don't even know what a weeaboo is. Forget this YOLO stuff!

 

[blame space]

language embraces acronyms. QED

 

[Hieberrr]

Maybe you've never heard of LASER.

Complete different things. YOLO is an acronym of a phrase. It is completely unnecessary for the "word" to be added, especially since it's not even used in everyday speech.

 

[BGBW]

I still don't even know what a weeaboo is. Forget this YOLO stuff!

Someone who curses their non Japanese heritage and deems anything Japanese automatically better. Alternative for Wapanese basically. 4chan basically filter wapanese to weeaboo which is how it started.

Guess I could suggest that to Collins. Just did moe.

 

[ajim]

mantyhose was probably the weirdest one out of that list for me.

 

[Lissar]

I wouldn't worry too much about new fad words getting added to the dictionary, as words that have fallen OUT of common use are being removed with every edition. It's always hard to tell which ones are going to stick around and which will fall by the wayside, but if they're commonly used now I don't see any reason not to add them.

But seriously though, don't add YOLO.

 

[kehs]

Creeping isn't a word already?

 

[Plywood]

Laser, Sonar are all inventions: things.

YOLO is a sentence in an acronym and nothing more. It's laziness and nothing more. Its definition is the word.

This is the definition of laser:
a device that produces a nearly parallel, nearly monochromatic, and coherent beam of light by exciting atoms to a higher energy level and causing them to radiate their energy in phase.

You really don't see the difference here?

Complete different things. YOLO is an acronym of a phrase. It is completely unnecessary for the "word" to be added, especially since it's not even used in everyday speech.

I wasn't defending YOLO by any means, I just wanted to talk about LASERs.

 

[Hieberrr]

I wasn't defending YOLO by any means, I just wanted to talk about LASERs.

 

[Mr. B Natural]

I wasn't defending YOLO by any means, I just wanted to talk about LASERs.

Well that I totally understand

 

[Deified Data]

"We're still relevent! Look how hip we are by pretending the youth's vernacular are real words!"

It's sad every time this happens.

 

[Vermillion]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser


Unless you were agreeing with me in which case I understand.

I was, lol.

 

[MIMIC]

Collins has already identified an initial list of new word candidates. It includes: creeping, cray, legbomb, yolo, mantyhose, superphone, sweatworking, Tebowing, tweeps and twitlit.

Really? Pathetic.

 

[killakiz]

Where people saying YOLO before Drakes album?

 

[Vermillion]

Where people saying YOLO before Drakes album?

Not that I heard.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

I wasn't defending YOLO by any means, I just wanted to talk about LASERs.

Talk about lasers if you want to then, YOLO.

#SWAGMMGYMCMBABCEZAS123

 

[kehs]

Where people saying YOLO before Drakes album?

YOLO, no, you only live once, yes.

Which it seems, ironically, has breathed new life into the phrase.

 

[RJT]

So, Kanye needed a one syllable word that meant crazy and came up with Cray. One year later, it may end up in a dictionary. You got to love the Internet...

 

[injurai]

Google it.
You only YOLO once.

#cringe

 

[Caelus]

Creeping isn't in there? I've used that word so much...