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Amazing. For the first time, I am old enough to have never heard or read the OED word of the year.
by walthamstow 3y ago
Amazing. For the first time, I am old enough to have never heard or read the OED word of the year.
- Prestophobia 3y agoAnd in a couple years it'll be considered old and cringe. Such is life, I suppose.
- walthamstow 3y agoIn the monthly chart in TFA it appears as though it became old and cringe the very month after it was popularised.
- Prestophobia 3y agoTrue. I miss when words and memes had a shelf life longer than milk left in the sun.
- subtra3t 3y agoI'd say it has already happened.
- trash_cat 3y agoClearly not a meme fan. To be fair, that zoomer terminology is used on Instagram and TikTok. Pretty sure HN people are not into it.
- thereddaikon 3y agoI only became aware of it earlier this year because of people mocking it on other platforms. I'm too old to have experienced it organically.
- adolph 3y agoI'm surprised that enough young people knew about DEC in 2021 for their line of minicomputers to be word of the year. https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2021/ https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2021/