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Posted on 06-11-09 03:32:47 PM Link | Quote

is Web 2.0.


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Posted on 06-11-09 03:33:33 PM Link | Quote
Way to blow, English language.

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Posted on 06-11-09 03:34:53 PM Link | Quote
I'm pretty sure 'noob' is used more than 'web 2.0.' Heck... It's more of a word since it doesn't contain numbers...

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Posted on 06-11-09 03:36:41 PM Link | Quote
David Crystal, professor of linguistics at Bangor University, called the idea "the biggest load of rubbish I've heard in years". "It is total nonsense. English reached 1 million words years ago. It's like someone standing by the side of the road counting cars, and when they get to 1 million pronouncing that to be the millionth car in the world. It's extraordinary."

At least we aren't alone in this.

Anyway, some other candidates for the word were "coddies", "chengguan", "fundoo", "slumdog", "sexting", "noob", "bangsters", "slumdog" and one the guys at Nvidia would have loved, "greenwashing" which apparently denotes "re-branding an old, often inferior, product as environmentally friendly, and quendy-trendy."

Take your pick for which one you would've preferred. 'Slumdog' could've gone along with the movie that was recently made (Slumdog Millionaire), couldn't it?

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Posted on 06-11-09 03:40:59 PM Link | Quote
I think we're in an era where 'sexting' it the best pick out of all those past n00b.

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Posted on 06-11-09 03:47:43 PM Link | Quote
That's the word they went with....

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Posted on 06-11-09 04:05:47 PM Link | Quote
These guys are mistaken. In fact it is me who is in charge of the language, since it's possible to be in charge of a language.
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Posted on 06-12-09 03:08:15 PM (last edited by Kles at 06-12-09 12:09 PM) Link | Quote
What fucking horseshit. The Oxford English Corpus, a massive collection of all sorts of texts from throughout English's history, has over two billion words in it. Even though you may challenge the veracity of the words (which is usually wrong to do), there's no way that you could cut out 1.9 billion of them.
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Posted on 06-12-09 11:10:20 PM Link | Quote
I agree completely on the horseshit issue.

Web 2.0 isn't even a fucking word!

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Posted on 06-13-09 06:36:26 AM Link | Quote
Jul Mosts 2009
How many people have even heard of the Global Language Monitor? Anyone?

...

Yeah, I thought so.

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Posted on 07-13-09 01:36:39 AM Link | Quote
Please keep in mind the date on some of these threads. This topic died about a month ago. If you don't have anything new to add to the topic at hand, please refrain from posting in old/dead threads.

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