thedailywhat: RIP Society of the Day: Oxford Dictionaries Online this week “legitimized” several long-standing Internetisms by adding them to the authoritative dictionary’s digital counterpart. Among the previously esoteric terms your grandma can now define at her leisure are “NSFW,” “ZOMG,” “newb,” and “nekkid,” which the dictionary illustrates with the phrase “some of the oldest photos in existence are of nekkid women.” They sure are. [odo / today.] Why is this title RIP Society? That is an idiotic title. A dictionary’s purpose is to list words and their meanings. I would be seriously concerned if Oxford didn’t add words that are used every single day in modern American language. Language is ever evolving and changing. So to say that any of these words imply a stupid society, is in fact, stupid.

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RIP Society of the Day: Oxford Dictionaries Online this week “legitimized” several long-standing Internetisms by adding them to the authoritative dictionary’s digital counterpart.

Among the previously esoteric terms your grandma can now define at her leisure are “NSFW,” “ZOMG,” “newb,” and “nekkid,” which the dictionary illustrates with the phrase “some of the oldest photos in existence are of nekkid women.”

They sure are.

[odo / today.]

Why is this title RIP Society? That is an idiotic title. A dictionary’s purpose is to list words and their meanings. I would be seriously concerned if Oxford didn’t add words that are used every single day in modern American language. Language is ever evolving and changing. So to say that any of these words imply a stupid society, is in fact, stupid.

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