"New" words...

[Silver]

...added to the Oxford English Dictionary* include:

LOL
BFF
OMG
IMHO
TMI

Next year expect to see FTW and GTFO

(*Initialisms, rather than words obviously).

[nowhere.elysium]

Hurrah for academically endorsed linguistic neoteny.
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[CaNsA]

♥
has also been added as a word/symbol

[MarJay]

BFF
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[Chalky.]

What a disgrace.

Almost as bad as the overuse of the words "epic" and "legend".

"I just ate an epic sandwich!". No you didn't, you complete and utter fuckwit.

[pinkyfloyd]

Our eldest has started speaking in text speak. It drives us mad. "Because all my friends do."

So she'll rip into the middle child, calling her names etc and try and make it all better by saying "lol jokes." Something pisses her off and its "sigh". Another one she denies using but we've heard it regularly is "I need to do my homework but I CBATBH"

Makes you want to strangle the bitch!
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[Lone-Wolf]

[Nai]

[Chalky.]

Even joking, it boils my piss

[dragstaar]

Hentai and wassup are now words!

[N cee thirty]

[Asharin]

[AJ9000]

I literally died laughing.

No, you didn't.

[colin1]

[The Artist]

[blurredman]

Those are not words though.

Is ASAP and AWOL in the dictionary? No seriously- is it?- I'm asking.
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[Silver]

[Frost]

None of those are words. They are all acronyms.

[Silver]

As stated in the first post...

[dragstaar]

[hellkat]

I still don't know exactly what BFF translates into.
(I suppose I'll have to go and look it up in the dictionary now)

I've moved on from LOL to LOLzor, anyway.

Although I DO use CBA quite often . . . (tbh)


Also, I thunk this thread was gonna be about PROPER new words, like squishalised and dunneven.

"I fell off the bike and got squishalised under the lorry tyres"
and
"I dunneven know what time dinner is booked for."
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[hellkat]

And what about "STFU" ... ?
Why haven't they added that?
It deserves entry.


*scurries off to google "neotony"*


Edit : ... hmmm okayyyyyyy.
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[Handsome]

[Rogerborg]

If language didn't evolve, our vocabulary would consist of "cave", "fire", "hungry" and thirty words for "snoo snoo".

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[Silver]

Sure I agree with you (to a point), and I try not to blame Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the addition of "humongous" but, really, do we need "Best Friends Forever" in the dictionary?