{"id":10284,"date":"2014-05-19T21:30:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=10284"},"modified":"2014-05-19T21:30:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T05:30:16","slug":"again-with-the-awful-new-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/again-with-the-awful-new-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Again With the Awful New Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just because people say it, is it a ‘word’? This is becoming complicated, thanks to the internet and all its attendant evils, which are now too astronomical to count.<\/p>\n

Merriam-Webster’s<\/a> Collegiate Dictionary has just added 150 new words, making official words out of shit like ‘gamification’ and ‘freegan.’ Remember how upset we were about ‘selfie’? It will never end. Soon, there will be no real words in use, just gibberish.<\/p>\n

Every time I learn one of these new ‘words’ my world gets a little bleaker. I just recently learned ‘YOLO’ and ‘MLIF’ although one hopes that such acronyms aren’t considered words by the forces in charge. Oh god, is ‘snapchat’ a word? Here is some trending internet slang<\/a>, by the way, if you’re not sufficiently discouraged.<\/p>\n

Awful words are one thing, but awful usage can be even worse. For example, why have people started using the word ‘so’ to begin a sentence? I read that it was started by Mark Zucherberg<\/strong>, as if he doesn’t have enough to answer for.<\/p>\n

How about the ‘because<\/a>‘ thing. Because idiots.<\/p>\n

It’s so hard to keep up.\u00a0 By the time I find out about a horrible new word and object to it, it’s already in common usage and people will just shrug and defend its existence. (Most of these people are my husband but I assume he speaks for Everyman.)<\/p>\n

Any words or word usage bothering you right now? Jump in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"