'Brain Rot' Named Oxford Word of the Year 2024
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/12/02/188220/brain-rot-named-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024
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> Following a public vote in which more than 37,000 people had their say, we're pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is 'brain rot.'
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> Our language experts created a shortlist of six words to reflect the moods and conversations that have helped shape the past year. After two weeks of public voting and widespread conversation, our experts came together to consider the public's input, voting results, and our language data, before declaring 'brain rot' as the definitive Word of the Year for 2024.
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> 'Brain rot' is defined as "the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration."
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> Our experts noticed that 'brain rot' gained new prominence this year as a term used to capture concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of low-quality online content, especially on social media. The term increased in usage frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024.
[1] https://corp.oup.com/news/brain-rot-named-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024/
2 words are THE word of the year (Score:4, Interesting)
Should be 'short sentence of the year.'
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Fun fact. If you post the same story about an open compound word on Slashdot twice you can call it an open compound post.
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> Fun fact. If you post the same story about an open compound word on Slashdot twice you can call it an open compound post.
The word open is now implicitly deprecated due to usage by companies such as "OpenAI" sullying the meaning beyond recognition. Please don't use the word open again, or you will be cited for trademark infringement and intellectual property theft.
Symptoms include (Score:5, Funny)
An uncontrollable desire to post [1]dupes. [slashdot.org]
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/02/002258/oxfords-word-of-the-year-brain-rot
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Slashdotters twenty years ago: Forst pist! Cowboy Neal!
Those same Slashdotters now: 'Skibidi toilet?' 'Baby Gronk?' What sort of meaningless nonsense is that?
Just 2024? (Score:2)
I'm guessing for 2025-2028 too -- at least here in the U.S. (*sigh*)
Rule #1 for Slashdot editors: (Score:4, Funny)
Never, ever look at the front page. Spotting a duplicate can kill you!
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Clearly the brain rot is affecting the /. editors.
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> Clearly the brain rot is affecting the /. editors.
Brain rot would imply brains. I'm not sure the editors here have had brains at any point in the last decade or so.
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This is a fair assessment at how far /. has fallen.
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For reference: [1] Oxford's Word of the Year: 'Brain Rot' [slashdot.org].
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/02/002258/oxfords-word-of-the-year-brain-rot
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> Never, ever look at the front page. Spotting a duplicate can kill you!
Based on how few comments on the articles lately, they may have duped this article to make sure we're still awake out here
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Not a dupe at all. The previous post was to a BBC article. This one is to an Oxford University Press press release! Completely different things. It's just a coincidence that the headlines are so similar.
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Well, for one thing, I am offended by the lingering British imperialism.
Why would anyone still trust the English to be an authority on the English language when here in 'the colonies' we have edgier words like 'en-----ification'?
[1]https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/27/0159221/enshittification-is-officially-the-biggest-word-of-the-year#comments