The absolute state Hoe embarrassing
Freudian slip ? xD
'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
#22Is this "progress" or are we glorifying moving backwards by including this sort of language just to be "in"? I really don't know how to feel about this, maybe it's my education making me bigoted, looking down upon what's clearly ephemeral; slang words like these come and go with time, and I think the timeframe for words to be included in the dictionary has greatly reduced. Almost no one apart from a very small, termi…
Dictionaries are not specs for the English language, they are wikis. Twenty years later when “delulu” (a word popular enough that my 65 year old father regularly uses it) has fallen out of style, new readers would find it very useful to get the word defined in the dictionary.
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#23Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#24Is this "progress" or are we glorifying moving backwards by including this sort of language just to be "in"? I really don't know how to feel about this, maybe it's my education making me bigoted, looking down upon what's clearly ephemeral; slang words like these come and go with time, and I think the timeframe for words to be included in the dictionary has greatly reduced. Almost no one apart from a very small, termi…
Dictionaries are not specs for the English language, they are wikis. Twenty years later when “delulu” (a word popular enough that my 65 year old father regularly uses it) has fallen out of style, new readers would find it very useful to get the word defined in the dictionary.
Fair enough, I've personally looked at dictionaries along with thesauri as a spec rather than a wiki; but your anecdote makes sense.
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#25Is this "progress" or are we glorifying moving backwards by including this sort of language just to be "in"? I really don't know how to feel about this, maybe it's my education making me bigoted, looking down upon what's clearly ephemeral; slang words like these come and go with time, and I think the timeframe for words to be included in the dictionary has greatly reduced. Almost no one apart from a very small, termi…
- terminally online
- DLC
- IRL
As in, "things that happened before my Xth year of life are Normal, nay, Traditional even. Everything afterwards is Ephemeral, and possibly Heresy as well."
Alas! All is ephemeral.
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
counterpoint: i've been on my phone/social/media/etc through the entire trend and this is the only time i've ever read the word 'delulu'; I had to look it up. Might I suggest that tribe matters a lot in this context? I don't listen to k-pop, I don't watch machinima, and I only knew 'tradwife' from the bullshit politics associated with the concept.. I think Cambridge called these too early. Maybe i'm old, and maybe i'…
Counterpoint: Delulu made it to Hansard*, the official government record of a G20 five eyes nation. As an example, the Cambridge University Press cited a 2025 speech in parliament where Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used the phrase "delulu with no solulu" during the last sitting week before the election. * https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard
Damn, now we gotta add solulu too
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#27Your mission for the week, should you choose to accept it, is to get one (or more) of the "words" tradwife, delulu, or broligarchy used in the acceptance criteria of one of your JIRA stories in progress without it being noticed or commented on in any way.
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#28Is this "progress" or are we glorifying moving backwards by including this sort of language just to be "in"? I really don't know how to feel about this, maybe it's my education making me bigoted, looking down upon what's clearly ephemeral; slang words like these come and go with time, and I think the timeframe for words to be included in the dictionary has greatly reduced. Almost no one apart from a very small, termi…
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Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#29Weird. 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
Dictionaries are no longer a reliable source of information just click bait bs
Re: 'Tradwife', 'delulu' and 'skibidi' among new words added to Cambridge Dictionary
#30Weird. 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
Yeah - this makes me very curious about the longevity of previous 'words of the year'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year