'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
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Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#2Don't "regular" dictionaries like the Cambridge and Oxford ones usually avoid adding slang?
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#3Don't "regular" dictionaries like the Cambridge and Oxford ones usually avoid adding slang?
The second paragraph of the article:
> Delulu, tradwife, broligarcy, and lewk, have all been added because experts believe the words will not be just a fad, but will have linguistic staying power.
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#4Weird. Usually dictionaries wait many years for words to be established before including them (it's a physical dictionary after all). Adding delulu reeks of capitalising on the zeitgeist for PR
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#5Don't "regular" dictionaries like the Cambridge and Oxford ones usually avoid adding slang?
The second paragraph of the article: > Delulu, tradwife, broligarcy, and lewk, have all been added because experts believe the words will not be just a fad, but will have linguistic staying power.
The fact they've included that paragraph doesn't invalidate the question. Cambridge used to add ~500, maybe as many as 1000 words annually. In recent years it's climbed to 2000 but 6000 is rather unprecedented.
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#6Weird. Usually dictionaries wait many years for words to be established before including them (it's a physical dictionary after all). Adding delulu reeks of capitalising on the zeitgeist for PR
I've definitely heard "delulu" years ago, probably floating around Twitter. There's a Wikipedia article on the word for some reason, and it supports this.
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#7Weird. Usually dictionaries wait many years for words to be established before including them (it's a physical dictionary after all). Adding delulu reeks of capitalising on the zeitgeist for PR
> Usually dictionaries wait many years for words to be established before including them (it's a physical dictionary after all). Adding delulu reels of capitalising the zeitgeist for PR
Delulu is more than a decade old.
> it's a physical dictionary after all
Is the Cambridge Dictionary still physical-first? I know the OED has been digital-first since at least around the turn of the millenium (the last full physical edition was in 1989.)
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#8Don't "regular" dictionaries like the Cambridge and Oxford ones usually avoid adding slang?
The OED may take a while to add words sometimes, but it doesn't avoid slang; it aims for completeness rather than limiting itself to a particular formal register.
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The second paragraph of the article: > Delulu, tradwife, broligarcy, and lewk, have all been added because experts believe the words will not be just a fad, but will have linguistic staying power.
The fact they've included that paragraph doesn't invalidate the question. Cambridge used to add ~500, maybe as many as 1000 words annually. In recent years it's climbed to 2000 but 6000 is rather unprecedented.
I think despite having lived through it, it's easy to miss just how transformative smartphones and social media have been to human society.
There's been an absolute explosion in communication. In the early years of the internet it was pretty exciting and novel to be able to talk to people from other countries. Now it's completely unremarkable.
All this of course has a huge effect on how language develops and is used, and really we're still in the early years of it all (I guess The Smartphone Era starts around 2010 or so).
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#10The absolute state
Hoe embarrassing