This is real life. Words like "side boob," "hot mess," "Yolo," and "amazeballs" have been added to the Oxford Dictionary after Britain's Oxford University Press deemed the lingo "merit a dictionary entry," ABC News reports. "These are words that are common enough that you are likely to encounter them, and may have to look up their meanings," said Oxford Dictionaries editor Katherine Martin. Also added are "throw shade" and — amazingly enough — "douchebaggery." Adorbs, right? (Yes, "adorbs" has also been added.) In case you're concerned about the decline [...]...
- 8/14/2014
- Us Weekly
Surprisingly, Vanity Fair’s terrific Oral History of Yolo, is Not exclusively a bunch of bros yelling “Yolo” before jumping into a coffee table at a frat party (full disclosure: I’ve never been to a frat party).
Using the Lonely Island’s Digital Short as a jumping-off point, the magazine detailed the rise (and death?) of the phrase (word?) that has populated so many hashtagging sprees and been the cause of so many minor injuries.
The biggest revelations from the piece were 1. basically everyone started saying Yolo accidentally 2. it’s still pretty fun to hear academics try to define the zeitgeist using terrible trends.
Using the Lonely Island’s Digital Short as a jumping-off point, the magazine detailed the rise (and death?) of the phrase (word?) that has populated so many hashtagging sprees and been the cause of so many minor injuries.
The biggest revelations from the piece were 1. basically everyone started saying Yolo accidentally 2. it’s still pretty fun to hear academics try to define the zeitgeist using terrible trends.
- 2/8/2013
- by Sarah Caldwell
- EW.com - PopWatch
Being a computer geek just got a little sexier. Oxford Dictionaries announced Monday the Oxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year for 2012 is Gif. If you're not familiar with the noun, it is defined as "a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations," according to Katherine Martin, Head of the U.S. Dictionaries Program at Oxford University Press USA. After popping up everywhere from People.com to Tumblr, the word had an amazing year. The tech-savvy term beat out some fierce competition, including Eurogeddon (the potential financial collapse of the Eurozone), Superstorm (an...
- 11/14/2012
- by Maggie Coughlan
- PEOPLE.com
Sorry, “Super Pac.” Your loss, “Eurogeddon.” The eggheads at Oxford American Dictionaries have spoken — and they’ve decreed that 2012′s Word of the Year is, officially, Gif, a verb meaning “to create a Gif file of (an image or video sequence, especially relating to an event).”
GIFs weren’t invented this year, but 2012 was a pretty big year for animated photos — as the dictionary’s blog notes, huge events like the London Olympics and the American presidential election gave Internet users countless opportunities to show off their GIFing skills. Several Gif-focused Tumblrs such as whatshouldwecallme also blew up this year,...
GIFs weren’t invented this year, but 2012 was a pretty big year for animated photos — as the dictionary’s blog notes, huge events like the London Olympics and the American presidential election gave Internet users countless opportunities to show off their GIFing skills. Several Gif-focused Tumblrs such as whatshouldwecallme also blew up this year,...
- 11/13/2012
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
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