Stan Carey"What accounts for the growing acceptance and recognition of words once considered taboo?"
@Fritinancy reports on the recent sweary Word of the Year awards, and quotes me on the underlying trends:
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Great metaphor by Dr. Kelly Wright in this NYT writeup of #woty2023
(The red carpet event of #LSA2024!)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/crosswords/linguistics-word-of-the-year.html
Hugo van Kemenadeassholocene:
'The earliest citation I’ve found is from a June 25, 2023, Urban Dictionary entry: “the current period of human history in which people in power tend to be assholes.”'
I found a 17th February 2014:
“Paleontologists of SFWA will one day refer to this as the Assholocene Era … ”
Quoting an unknown poster on a Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America newsgroup:
https://informationjustwantstobefree.tumblr.com/post/76737018648/sffnet-sfwa-discussion
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/assholocene
#assholocene #WOTY2023 #WOTY #swearing
That Word ChatHave you registered to attend today's #ThatWordChat show? Don't miss our panel discussion of the fascinating choices for #WOTY2023!
Grab your virtual seat: https://bit.ly/ThatWordChat
#Dictionarycom #TheEconomist #OED #SussexUni #CambridgeDictionary #MerriamWebster #AmericanDialectSociety
#AmEditing #WritingCommunity
Nancy FriedmanThere was a lot of swearing at the American Dialect Society's word of the year vote on Friday, thanks in large part to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic and "enshittification." My summary for the @stronglang blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/the-sweary-wotys/ #woty #woty2023
Strong Language"Enshittification", "FAFO", and "assholocene" featured in the American Dialect Society’s recent word-of-the-year vote.
@Fritinancy reports on the sweary WOTYs:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/the-sweary-wotys/
Dave in 🏴#WOTY2023 is #enshittification! Congrats @pluralistic
https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/
Edited to add: #woty = #WordOfTheYear
EditorMark"Enshittification" has an extensive Wikipedia entry.
Word of the year chosen by linguists assembled for the American Dialect Society conference: enshittification.
Posting here and not on the platform that prompted @pluralistic to coin the term.
https://americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf
Systems ApproachIf you missed our last newsletter of 2023, you can find it at our new site. We're feeling a bit clever because we managed to cover two of the American Dialect Society's Words of the Year in our last post: Enshittification and Stochastic Parrots. #Woty2023 https://systemsapproach.org/2023/12/26/holiday-reading/
Holiday Reading - Systems Approach
As we noted in our last issue, we plan to have a bit of down time over the holidays, so we’re using this opportunity to suggest some reading material to keep you going over the break. Since many of our readers joined us fairly recently, we are resurfacing some of our old posts, and we’re […]