English just facepalmed.

[Trolldor]

http://www.smh.com.au/business/economic ... 1744h.html

[Feck]

That's fucking sad . I thought you had to have a word published a few times in books people actually read before the OED would consider it ?

[Animavore]

I never heard that. I thought the only rule for new words is that they were above a certain level of recognition and shared consensus over its meaning.

[Feck]

I never heard that. I thought the only rule for new words is that they were above a certain level of recognition and shared consensus over its meaning.

I think Tweetheart is pushing the limits ?

[Trolldor]

Fuck it. New rule: A word can only be included if I recognise it as a word.

[Animavore]

I never heard that. I thought the only rule for new words is that they were above a certain level of recognition and shared consensus over its meaning.

I think Tweetheart is pushing the limits ?

If a few million people understand a word I think it's a word.

Fuck it. New rule: A word can only be included if I recognise it as a word.

English is elastic, get over it.

[Trolldor]

English is elastic, but not fucking retarded. A new word specifically for 'being distracted while texting'?

As if "distracted" wasn't good enough?

[eXcommunicate]

NEWSFLASH: English is a living language. Curmudgeons lament. Film at 11.

[Animavore]

Yes. It's well alive. It even has its own version of "natural selection".

And look how much its evolved since the 14th century.

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
5 Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
10 That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

[Trolldor]

Newsflash: Shit is still retarded

[FBM]

Funemployment. I'm looking forward to it come March.

New Words in English Dictionary Reflect Changing Times The latest Collins English Dictionary features a number of new words mostly spurred by the global economic crisis and new technologies related to social networks.

Thus "funemployment" means the condition of enjoying being unemployed. "PIIGS" is an acronym for the European countries struggling with enormous sovereign debts -- Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain. "Broken society," "social recession," and "ghost estate" are some other new words in the dictionary born from the slump.

From social networking come "tweetheart," a Twitter user admired by others, and "tweet-out," sending regards to friends through Twitter.

"Intexticated" is the state of being distracted by reading or writing a text message on a mobile phone, and "drexting" the act of sending a text while drunk.

From public life comes "fauxmance," when celebrities fake romance to attract media attention, "birthers" who believe that U.S. President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., and "Cleggmania," the groundswell of support for the U.K.'s Liberal Democratic Party leader Nick Clegg.

[SPMaximus]

Newsflash: Shit is still retarded

no tisnt, urerong

i propose we start combining some words that are already spelled wrongly and missing some letters like i did above

[lsdetroit]

im pretty sure merkins are putting online jargon into the dictionaries if im not mistaken.

[JimC]

Bah humbug...

[SPMaximus]

Bah humbug...

those are like the oldest words in the english language