Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Macquarie Dictionary's Word of the Year

Social media users, if they don't know the word, will viscerally understand the concept, the way trolls and extremists and bullshitters and the criminally vacuous have overtaken the platforms.

Posted by South_American at 06:30 PM | 16 COMMENTS | permalink

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"If the shoe fits, wear it" comes to mind here...

#1 | Posted by South_American at 2024-11-26 11:21 PM

... Social media users, if they don't know the word ...

What is the word of which you speak?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-26 11:57 PM

What is the word of which you speak?
#2 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

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At least click the link FFS.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-11-27 12:04 AM

@#3

I did click on the link.

And I read that article.

Along with the few other "word of the year" articles i have read.

But I had wondered why the article had to state "what many of us feel?"

There's that projection of an opinion.

OK, all that aside... does your current alias really want to discuss this?

If so, let's go...

From the cited article...

... "We're all living through the ------------, a great ------------, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of ----," author Cory Doctorow said earlier this year.

In 2022, Doctorow coined the word "en----tification", which has just been crowned Macquarie Dictionary's word of the year. The dictionary defined the word as follows.

"The gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking." ...


Gee, that sounds quite a lot like to goal of your current alias here (and not just your current alias, but couple three others as well). Degrade, not contribute.

                      :)


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-27 12:21 AM

Ehh. I'm pretty sure there's already non-vulgar word for this phenomenon, but I can't think of it right now.

If we're talking about web services, I'd go with Googlefication.

#5 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-11-28 06:24 AM

I'm sorry, doesn't everyone already know that's the end goal of Capitalism? It's always been a fast race to the bottom.

#6 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2024-11-28 10:16 AM

So does the "Word of the Year" violate the site's Moderation Policy? Not that I care! I went to the Howard Stern school about profanity; Making a word off-limits just gives that word power. When profanity is normal then so called "dirty words" cease to shock anyone.

#7 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-28 05:45 PM

So does the "Word of the Year" violate the site's Moderation Policy? Not that I care! I went to the Howard Stern school about profanity; Making a word off-limits just gives that word power. When profanity is normal then so called "dirty words" cease to shock anyone.

#8 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-28 05:45 PM

So does the "Word of the Year" violate the site's Moderation Policy? Not that I care! I went to the Howard Stern school about profanity; Making a word off-limits just gives that word power. When profanity is normal then so called "dirty words" cease to shock anyone.

#9 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-28 05:45 PM

So does the "Word of the Year" violate the site's Moderation Policy? Not that I care! I went to the Howard Stern school about profanity; Making a word off-limits just gives that word power. When profanity is normal then so called "dirty words" cease to shock anyone.

#10 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-28 05:45 PM

So does the "Word of the Year" violate the site's Moderation Policy? Not that I care! I went to the Howard Stern school about profanity; Making a word off-limits just gives that word power. When profanity is normal then so called "dirty words" cease to shock anyone.

#11 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-28 05:45 PM

So does the "Word of the Year" violate the site's Moderation Policy? Not that I care! I went to the Howard Stern school about profanity; Making a word off-limits just gives that word power. When profanity is normal then so called "dirty words" cease to shock anyone.

#12 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-28 05:45 PM

So does the "Word of the Year" violate the site's Moderation Policy? Not that I care! I went to the Howard Stern school about profanity; Making a word off-limits just gives that word power. When profanity is normal then so called "dirty words" cease to shock anyone.

#13 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-28 05:45 PM

I didn't catch that Danni. Please repeat it.

#14 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-11-28 05:51 PM

"Ehh. I'm pretty sure there's already non-vulgar word for this phenomenon, but I can't think of it right now.
#5 | POSTED BY SENTINEL AT 2024-11-28 06:24 AM"

Suggestion: DEGENERATION

I suspect if folks put more effort into expanding their vocabulary, they'd find they don't have to invent new words.

#15 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2024-11-29 08:38 AM

Cory Doctorow was mentioned upthread, one of his recent books is pretty good: The Lost Cause
Dystopian fiction set in the near future.

#16 | Posted by mattm at 2024-11-29 01:08 PM

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