Mansplain is my new favorite word: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/mansplain
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Professor l Department of Psychology Kaufman 168 l Dickinson College Phone 717.245.1562 l Fax 717.245.1971 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html -----Original Message----- From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 9:18 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: [tips] Yo! New Words Added to OxfordDictionaries.com! It's Amazeballs! Tipsters are probably aware that language, especially English, grows by adding new words that gain common currency as well as going through word fads that allows one to identify a time period from which speech or writing had occurred (groovy, no?). Well, periodically the good folks at Oxford and their worldwide minions scour English language usage in print, speech, songs, other media in which language is captured, finding new words and phrases that have increased in usage (binge watch much?) and warrant being included in the OxfordDictionaries.com (ODC) list of words/phrase and their definitions. Afterall, some people don't feel comfortable always checking the urbandictionary.com NOTE: The online, web-based OxfordDictionaries (ODC) is different from the "Oxford English Dictionary" (OED), best known as a paper product consisting of many volumes (I still have my old 2 volume concise version which requires one to use a magnifying glass to read even when my eyesight was young). Here is the difference from the FAQ on the OxfordDictionaries website: |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. So, the ODC is the "cool" version while the OED is the nerd version of a comprehensive dictionary of English. There are a few popular media accounts of the new words, such as the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/14/smh-the-newest-additions-to-the-oxford-online-dictionary-include-cray-yolo-and-adorbs/ And the UK's Mirror: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/14/smh-the-newest-additions-to-the-oxford-online-dictionary-include-cray-yolo-and-adorbs/ NOTE: I include the Mirror website because they provide photos that one might consider appropriate for aiding in understanding the terms, such as one photo of Lindsay Lohan for "hot mess" and Lady Gaga for "side boob". On the last term, I'm glad that they didn't use a picture of an old fat guy in a "wifebeater" (wifebeater is not a new term, see: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/wife-beater?q=wifebeater ) Here is a link to the blog entry on new terms on the ODC website: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/press-releases/new-words-added-oxforddictionaries-com-august-2014/ Here's a link to a popular media article on the new terms in ODC, written for people like readers of the New York Post: ;-) http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/08/oxford-dictionaries-update-august-2014/ Now, I'm sure that the guardians of the English language (not to be confused with the other group involving the Galaxy) will be outraged by the recognition of such words and phrases as legitimate elements of discourse. To these folks I say: Yo, stop the douchebaggery, give the new terms a bro hug, and try not to get your listicles tied up. Yolo, so cotch. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. Yes, I know that the use of "listicles" above is inappropriate for the context but its rhyming similarity to "testicles" makes it irresistible to use. Don't make me mansplain it. P.P.S. Yes, I included some of the new terms above so that my spell checker will recognize them. Again, don't make me mansplain it. ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: helw...@dickinson.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a4468797f&n=T&l=tips&o=37929 or send a blank email to leave-37929-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=37936 or send a blank email to leave-37936-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
