http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/p...m-august-2014/
It is as if a thousand prescriptivists suddenly cried out in terror.
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/p...m-august-2014/
It is as if a thousand prescriptivists suddenly cried out in terror.
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What the world has learned is that America is never more than one election away from losing its goddamned mindMe on Elite : Dangerous | My WoW charactersOriginally Posted by Howard Tayler
Soooooo, they are basically killing the dictionary slowly. When YOLO gets put in the official dictionary you know something is wrong.
It's not in their 'official' dictionary.
"What’s the difference between OxfordDictionaries.com and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)?
The new entries mentioned above have been added to OxfordDictionaries.com, not the OED.
The English language dictionary content on OxfordDictionaries.com focuses on current English and includes modern meanings of words and associated usage examples.
The OED, on the other hand, is a historical dictionary and forms a record of all the core words and meanings in English over more than 1,000 years, from Old English to the present day, including many obsolete and historical terms."
Dictionaries are descriptive, not proscriptive. They do not define what is or is not a word, they codify the collective use of language. If people use a word differently, that new definition becomes the dictionary definition. If people use a new word, it gets included. That's how dictionaries work.
The word for that is "dumbwalking".
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What the world has learned is that America is never more than one election away from losing its goddamned mindMe on Elite : Dangerous | My WoW charactersOriginally Posted by Howard Tayler