Thread

Tower of Babel

GM 🫂☕

I know all of these but the first Petrichor, by the way, is a pleasant odor after a rainfall following a warm, dry period. Teraflop is a unit of measure for calculating the speed of a computer. Dumbphones are just that, mobile devices we used before the smartphone revolution. And ghost kitchens, which came into their own during the pandemic, are commercial spaces for hire. Other additions: “cold brew,” “farm-to-table,” “rizz,” “dad bod,” “hard pass,” “adulting” and “cancel culture.” There’s also “beast mode,” “dashcam,” “doomscroll,”“WFH” and “side-eye.” You might be talking about Gen Z lingo which is not this

Gm I noticed the online dictionaries have been adding bs words for decades now, but unfortunately, that's how language progresses. Otherwise, we'd still be calling each other "thee" and "thou", lol. The thing I hate is when they consider misspellings as correct alternatives 🙄

5000 words... 5000

That is a lot! But language always grows and morphs, even in different regions. Hopefully they added “hard money” and “peer-to-peer “ and “unf*ckwithable”

Nah. Languages are alive and grow. That is just the way human culture is. People have always developed their own dialect and vernaculars. It’s a feature not a bug.

It's the rate of increase that has me concerned...