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grandma_tea | 1 year ago

Language changes. Adapt or be cringe.

discuss

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shagie|1 year ago

INCYMI, FWIW, pwn, MacGyver, cringe and ICYMI have been part of the M-W dictionary for three years.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/new-words-in-the-di...

> The dictionary chronicles how the language grows and changes, which means new words and definitions must continually be added. When many people use a word in the same way, over a long enough period of time, that word becomes eligible for inclusion.

082349872349872|1 year ago

FWIW, "fwiw" was already common on Usenet concurrently with this purity test.

(I'd call 60% of that list to have been in use before the turn of the century)