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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
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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.
There is an article of this kind every year where we all get a chance to be up in arms about the fact that language and culture is ever-shifting and changing and not something static.
But I'm surprised that work wife wasn't already in the dictionary.
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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,…
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'…
Is 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…
There is an article of this kind every year where we all get a chance to be up in arms about the fact that language and culture is ever-shifting and changing and not something static.
The comments here really remind of the usual debate around Wikipedia. Some people really want to see these tools as guardian and judge determining what should be worthy of inclusion rather than tools describing a reality external to them. Maybe old age really is a shipwreck after all.
Is 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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The comments here really remind of the usual debate around Wikipedia. Some people really want to see these tools as guardian and judge determining what should be worthy of inclusion rather than tools describing a reality external to them. Maybe old age really is a shipwreck after all.
Wikipedia is a guardian and judge, whether it wants to be or not. Look how quickly politicians changed their policies after Wikipedia stopped bothsidesing the Gaza war. There were endless arguments on talk pages about how it shouldn't be called the "Israel-Hamas war" any more, since it's converted into a genocide of one side only. For more than a year. And then suddenly, once they agreed to change it, within only a c…