• kakes@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I mean, their job is to provide definitions for the words people use in language, not to gatekeep what words are “good enough” to be defined.

    I hear each of the words you’ve listed all the time, they’re part of our language whether we like it or not.

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      1 year ago

      My point was more about which dictionary do you use and less about the exact words added. Webster added them, but Oxford and American Heritage didn’t.

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          1 year ago

          Now I want to play a game of scrabble where you play a complete nonsense word, and your points are the number of Google results for that word - lowest points wins. And maybe you have 5 letters instead of 7.