'Noob' and 'Greenwashing' Race to become One Millionth English Word
'Noob' and 'Greenwashing' Race to become One Millionth English Word
Posted 05/12/2009 at 4:32am
| by Paul Lilly
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Last year several geek-inspired words made it into the latest version of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, including 'webinar', 'netroots', 'pretexting', 'fanboy', and 'malware'. Whether Merriam-Webster choose to recognize it or not, 'noob' might soon become a real English term as well, as determined by the Global Language Monitor (GLM).
"The widespread popularity of English as a second language in Asia has brought about the most fertile period of word generation since William Shakespeare's time with new terms coined on average every 98 minutes, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reports.
It takes using a word 25,000 times by media outlets and social networking sites for the GLM to acknowledge it, and the race is on to become the one millionth English word. Other possible entries include 'defollow,' 'defriend,' 'greenwashing,' 'and chiconomics.'
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Kaasiim
May 13, 2009 at 5:29am
I think its pathetic that serious and alledgedly sophicated dictionaries would allow any sort of that foolishness grace its pages. The tech talk that has made it into the dictionary should never have been there in the first place.
Let that kind of nonsense fill a tech, gamer or urban dictionary. It does not belong in a Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.
However, the pic is damn funny!
Vegan
May 12, 2009 at 5:12am
Hey, man, who are you to judge the evolution of language... I mean, lanugage?!
AntiHero
May 12, 2009 at 7:40am
If that keeps up being posted on MPC as Lanugage, it could get into the dictionary, 24,999 more times to go! Noob should get in the dictionary, I hear girly broads saying it in the mall and shit, I asked one girl I graduated with if she knew where it come from (she used it a lot, ad incorrectly sometimes too) and all she said was "haha el oh el it's from Myspace". From this day forth, the internets should come with instructionals and the passing of a test before you can use it..like what chans not to visit if you're going to visit them to begin with, and the given knowledge that anyone on the internet saying they are a teenage girl, is an old man.
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