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Post by kerouac2 on May 5, 2018 17:00:10 GMT
Over these past several years, I'm sure that we have all learned a number of internet and text terms, whether we wanted to or not.
However, this article offers quite a few more of which I had never heard. Frankly, I am happy to learn new vocabulary, even if I will never use most of it (I think). |
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2018 20:10:06 GMT
I guess it wouldn't do to bomb those "hubs of lexical innovation" to stop the spread of that stuff, right?
The only one I can remember ever seeing is baeless, but until now I didn't know what it meant.
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Post by bjd on May 6, 2018 5:21:10 GMT
Well, when misspellings (celfie) are considered new words, then of course the numbers go up.
When I do American crossword puzzles, I am already faced with terms that didn't exist a few years ago, like meme, but since I don't use Twitter, I am not likely to use any of the terms in that article. Especially since many of them are not only limited to Twitter but to a specific area of the States.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 6, 2018 5:23:32 GMT
I would imagine that celfie was invented to confirm that the selfie was taken with a cell phone.
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Post by whatagain on May 8, 2018 21:10:28 GMT
Balayage rings a Bell.
Maybe one of these words that don't exist in French like entrepreneur I guess.
Never read any of those - came across baeless and already forgot the meaning.
Using ´slang' or strange words when you are a foreigner is a sure way to look like a fool both to the locals and to your own fellow countrymen ;-)
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Post by kerouac2 on May 28, 2020 15:19:21 GMT
I'm just putting this here because it touches on another aspect of the internet -- words forbidden on the major websites.
Most of this is taken care of by automatic algorithms that block vulgar or obscene terms.
So I thought it was quite funny to read that tweets about Dominic Cummings were banned for a considerable period of time on Twitter because Twitter thought it saw something nasty in his name. The internet community apparently got around this by using deliberate misspellings which the Big Computer community is not able to block automatically.
An article in The Guardian pointed out that the town of Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire has also faced problems due to algorithms.
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Post by lagatta on May 28, 2020 15:25:06 GMT
And Fucking, Austria?
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Post by mossie on May 28, 2020 16:29:28 GMT
So Penistone gives them the willies.
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Post by onlyMark on May 28, 2020 16:33:02 GMT
Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire has also faced problems due to algorithms. But there are lots of places called thorpe in the UK. |
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Post by mickthecactus on May 28, 2020 16:42:47 GMT
Wankhede Stadium?
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Post by lagatta on May 28, 2020 16:53:26 GMT
I was thinking that should be Wankhand, but I guess you were referring to the wankee, not the wanker. Sorry, we are getting quite crude.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 28, 2020 19:38:51 GMT
Lagatta, you shock me....,!
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Post by questa on May 29, 2020 0:01:13 GMT
Meanwhile, back with new words...the ones that are easy to say will hang around for a while, but how do you say 'idgt'?
I have seen baeless and mentally inserted a B to make babeless which fitted the sentence meaning..
What ever happened to PHAT (good)?
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Post by mossie on May 29, 2020 6:59:36 GMT
EEjit!
Never heard of PHAT, guess it is old hat now.
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