Bitcoin, BYOD, Phablet, Selfie, and Twerking Find Place In Oxford Dictionary

hypnosec writes "The Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO) has been updated today to include some of the widely used tech words like Bitcoin, BYOD, Phablet, Selfie, and Twerking among others. Some of the other common tech words which have found a place in the dictionary are 'click and connect', 'digital detox', 'FOMO', 'geek chic', 'hackerspace', 'Internet of Things', 'MOOC', 'selfie', and 'TL;DR'."

Re:Twerking?

[demonlapin]

Please stop talking about Miley Cyrus. That performance was one of the worst things I've ever seen. Not because she decided to try to shock people - Madonna and Gaga have both done that excellently over the years - but because she failed so badly at being actually sexy. Creepy tongue, vag itch impression, ugh. The only decent thing that's come out of it is this [youtube.com].

Re:Mutability

[Xtifr]

That aside, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Why? As long as it's properly marked as slang (and I can't imagine it would be called anything else), it serves it purpose of letting people who aren't familiar with the word know what it means. I can't count the number of times I have found some obscure bit of slang in an old book, and been overjoyed to find out that it's documented in my dictionary. In ten, or twenty, or fifty years, when the term "twerking" has basically died the death it deserves, someone reading a work published in 2013 may be equally overjoyed to find his or her dictionary explains the word. That's what dictionaries are for.

Re:Twerking?

[Anonymous Coward]

Tell me about it, I feel like Abe Simpson:

"I used to be `with it.' But then they changed what `it' was. Now what I'm `with' isn't `it' and what's `it' seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you."

The mistake is in caring about keeping up with trends or slang or "what's cool" in the first place.

Write your own life story, and quit worrying about what other people say or think. You'll be surprised
how much happiness is linked with this approach.

Re:Twerking?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's what the American society wants. Miley Cyrus is putting on a show to deliver. She's reacting to the market, not creating one. She also stands to make huge ultra mega bucks from all this activity!

No. She *thinks* she is reacting to the market. In fact she failed oh so badly. She delivered the entertainment industry's version of Steve Balmer's Developers Developers Developers dance.

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