Dictionaries are an artifact of an elitist society where only a small part was lettered. Language is a living thing, just like computer languages are. Oxford di

Dictionaries are an artifact of an elitist society where only a small part was lettered. Language is a living thing, just like computer languages are. Oxford dictionary included internet terms like lol and imho, to reflect the current status in language used by a great part of the english speaking world. The notion of an 'official' dictionary is rather strange. We use certain words, but we can only include them if an institute blesses these words. Having a dictionary is not a bad thing; it serves as a guide to know what language others may expect. The process of having an institute decide for us what's the set of words we ought to use is merely ridiculous. The alternative is this: generate a dictionary from all webpages utilizing the english language. We can do this every -say 5- years, which then will serve as a dictionary for the next 5 years. The language speakers and writers should decide what the contents of the dictionary should be, not some elitist club of people calling themselves 'language experts'. We, the people are the language experts, not them.