Words are dying right now. Are you helping to kill them? The Hot Word | Hot & Trending Words Daily Blog at Dictionary.com
In class we hath spent numerous sundials postulating ideas on the topic of creating new words and how using them expandth our language, adding diversity to it, and overall has no negative consequences.
The decoy
However, mine malchicks and devotchkas, it at times falls on one to make sure their droogs viddy the truth, no matter how much it will charagin their mozgs.
Setting the stage
So, without further ado (and Nadsat), I durst pour water and sand on your unholistic fire. Ergo, we present the somewhat ovbious issue that words are dying. However, the standardization of language by technology(often hailed as the birthplace and home of so much innovation), spellcheck, and the like, creation of new words can't catch on or really happen, as you're blatently told that they're wrong. Also, synonym death, a term that refers to words dying out of use, in favor of words with similar meanings that are shorter(wait, isn't that a tradmark of these great new creations), easier to spell, or 'hip', leads to longer words dying.
The hand is revealed
Thus, as a recent study by physicists found, words are actually dying at a faster rate than ever before today. So congratulations everyone, your precious little new ducklings are actually vicious murderers which go around in the night murdering older words, just because they can.
Checkmate in 4
That sound in the background right now is words dying.
And the winner is Hov. Speech...
This makes me so sad! I love long words! We need to bring them back! Maybe music will be an area that generates some new and interesting words-it's pretty open to experimentation with language in a way that many other forms seem less so. Or perhaps Colbert will coin some new ones...
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