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And the One Millionth Word in the English Language is....*drum roll*
2009-06-10, 8:18 PM #1
Web 2.0

Good job English speaking people. You have polluted a once fine language with "words" such as the aforementioned "Web 2.0", "Brangelina", and our lexicon champion, "octomom."

This insanity must be stopped! Who is with me?!
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2009-06-10, 8:20 PM #2
Dammit, "noob" was supposed to be the 1 millionth
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2009-06-10, 8:21 PM #3
STFU. There are languages where it is ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN to create new words. Be happy English is so ready to expand itself.
2009-06-10, 8:23 PM #4
This pisses me off so much. NOT A ****ING WORD. It's a combination of a word we already had and a number.

Do we know what was added right after this one? I'd like to toast the real one millionth word.
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2009-06-10, 8:24 PM #5
what the hell? that is absolute crap. Web 2.0 isn't a word, it's a word followed by a number, or arguably two words (possibly 3 or 4 if you count the point zero)
I'm all for an expanding language, but calling Web 2.0 one word is just retarded

Edit: at least I good a quote out of it: "English does not borrow from other languages...it follows them down dark alleys, beats the crap out of them and searches their pockets for loose grammar"
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2009-06-10, 8:29 PM #6
Quote:
Stung by criticism from linguists, GLM's FAQ includes the question, "A number of linguists disagree with the Million Word March. Why?"

COLOR ME SURPRISED
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2009-06-10, 8:39 PM #7
Originally posted by JM:
STFU. There are languages where it is ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN to create new words. Be happy English is so ready to expand itself.

English has changed over the course of millenia. If you read "Beowolf" in the English of that time, you couldn't understand a single word of it.

"Brangelina" is not a word and shall never be one. It is a portmanteau of a personal noun, presumably Brad and Angelina.

"Octomom" is a pet name given to that woman who made it her life's mission to sully our welfare system by producing eight children at once so that she can get her 15 minutes of fame.

And you still champion English being this loose?
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2009-06-10, 9:13 PM #8
I AM BEOWULF
2009-06-10, 9:19 PM #9
I don't see how 'Web 2.0' is a word.. and it's ****ing stupid what it is anyway.. "web 2.0" give me a break
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2009-06-10, 11:13 PM #10
English is like a cheap whore, it would seem.
2009-06-10, 11:16 PM #11
Originally posted by JM:
Be happy English is so ready to expand itself.


Um. Why?
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2009-06-10, 11:44 PM #12
That isn't a word though, that's a title.

Talk about not getting it?
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2009-06-10, 11:56 PM #13
Cracked did an article about 15 Words You Won't Believe They Added to the Dictionary
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2009-06-11, 12:07 AM #14
I'm honestly a little offended that mini-me is a proper word now.
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2009-06-11, 12:37 AM #15
It should've been ****numpty
2009-06-11, 12:57 AM #16
ok if you ever play scrabble with someone good there are way more retarded words.
2009-06-11, 3:20 AM #17
I hate this "Web 2.0" garbage on the internet, and now it's in the dictionary? I disregarded as meaningless jargon but, wonderful, it's now part of the English language.

I might as well kill myself. I'll post the final words on Twitter and upload a photo of it on Flickr.
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2009-06-11, 5:03 AM #18
Until it's in the Oxford English Dictionary, it's not a word.

[edit: For Extra-Bollocksness, word 1000001 is "Financial Tsunami". THAT'S 2 ****ING WORDS.]
nope.
2009-06-11, 5:15 AM #19
Quote:
And you still champion English being this loose?


Absopositivoulutely.

On a side note, you are all a bunch of uptight cock suckers.

And I am surprised that's not censored.

Words are not words because you say they are. Words are words because people use them as words. And English is a language where it's very easy to invent a new word to represent a new concept. You can't have one without the other. If you want to be able to invent Good new words, you're going to get bad ones too. So pull the sticks out of your asses.
2009-06-11, 5:43 AM #20
For Web 2.0 to be a word, it must be written Web2.0 :colbert:
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2009-06-11, 5:43 AM #21
You go girl!
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2009-06-11, 5:44 AM #22
otherwise it would be two words, like black bird
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2009-06-11, 5:44 AM #23
not blackbird
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2009-06-11, 5:45 AM #24
Words don't have numbers or decimal points in them.

;_;
nope.
2009-06-11, 5:56 AM #25
I'll decimal you in a minute! -shakes fist angrily-
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Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2009-06-11, 6:00 AM #26
:awesome:
nope.
2009-06-11, 6:21 AM #27
Ars toasts? Ars toasts?!
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2009-06-11, 7:26 AM #28
While I agree, combinations of words probably shouldn't count as a "word", I couldn't really care less what some empty suits think should and should not be added to the lexicon.

I don't base my verbosity (or more accurately, the lack of it) on what words some organization says I can use.

:colbert:
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2009-06-11, 7:35 AM #29
Originally posted by Chewbubba:
I could really care less

On the subject of language, I hate when people type this.

It means the opposite of what you think it does.
nope.
2009-06-11, 8:16 AM #30
Originally posted by Chewbubba:
...I could really care less...


COULDN'T.
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2009-06-11, 8:21 AM #31
I don't know what you guys are talking about...
;)
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2009-06-11, 8:30 AM #32
that's ****ing dumb
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2009-06-11, 10:53 AM #33
That's not even a word. That an existing word with a version number after it. :carl:
2009-06-11, 11:45 AM #34
I voice my opinion in support of the "this is stupid" side.
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2009-06-11, 12:43 PM #35
let down to the max
2009-06-12, 1:41 AM #36
Before people hurt themselves in anger over Web 2.0 being declared a word, I wish to be the bearer of good news. They're not necessarily saying it's the millionth word.

And I quote from the front page of http://www.languagemonitor.com/
Quote:
The Global Language Monitor today announced that Web 2.0 has bested Jai Ho, N00b and Slumdog as the 1,000,000th English word or phrase.


They're merely being confusing by constantly saying "1,000,000th English Word" rather than "1,000,000th English Word or phrase"

As such, I'm completely astonished that "Web 2.0" wasn't beaten by "**** me sideways"
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2009-06-12, 9:09 AM #37
Originally posted by Deadman:
what the hell? that is absolute crap. Web 2.0 isn't a word, it's a word followed by a number, or arguably two words (possibly 3 or 4 if you count the point zero)
I'm all for an expanding language, but calling Web 2.0 one word is just retarded

Edit: at least I good a quote out of it: "English does not borrow from other languages...it follows them down dark alleys, beats the crap out of them and searches their pockets for loose grammar"


Someone please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe "Web 2.0" is collectively consider a unique word that carries a unique meaning (much different then what we'd consider the internet web that we know and love today). So we're not talking about simply different versions or an upgrade of the original, but something that's almost completely different from the ground up.

Furthermore, I used to laugh at my English teachers that would tell me that a new word we were using around school that someone coined, wasn't a word. It's a word if we agree it's a word and we use it within a contextual meaning that we all agree on. Damn purist... :D

[edit] at my, not my at. pfft.
2009-06-12, 9:20 AM #38
You're a penis.
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2009-06-12, 11:54 AM #39
Originally posted by Jep:
You're a penis.


My mother loves telling the story about how when I was 2 they took me to one of my brothers baseball games and I pointed to one of the babies sitting next to us in the stands and proclaimed: "Look ma'ma, it's a penis baby!"

...I have no idea why I just shared that with you guys.
2009-06-12, 1:34 PM #40
Incidentally the same day as the first infant suicide.
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