[WhereTheBuffaloRoam]

Who is making up all these crap words???? Do we really have to accept all this nonsense and put it into the dictionary? I guess we are a society that can't stay focused too long without having to interject "new" words to spice up the vocabulary. Some I can understand - the rest are just garbage which will soon pass into the "groovy" past.

[ChadGore]

Re: I guess we are a society that can't stay focused too long without having to interject "new" words to spice up the vocabulary. Internert? Email ?

[Prodigal Son]

This is like complaing about the dawn- it gets you nowhere.
They add new words to the dictionary every year.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Who is making up all these crap words???? Do we really have to accept all this nonsense and put it into the dictionary? I guess we are a society that can't stay focused too long without having to interject "new" words to spice up the vocabulary. Some I can understand - the rest are just garbage which will soon pass into the "groovy" past.

I suspect a lot of it comes from our tendency to exaggerate. I had a cup of coffee this morning, and I told the young lady who served it that it was "wonderful." Now, did that cup of coffee literally fill me with wonder? Of course not. That used to be the sense in which the word "wonderful" was used, but now, it really means "OK." If a cup of coffee is deemed to be "wonderful," new words are invented for things that really do fill one with wonder.

Thousands of words have been similarly devalued. Most notable, to me, is "unique," which is now used to mean merely "unusual." I'm sure we'll hear with increasing frequency "unique-er" and "unique-est," and "the most unique thing I ever saw."

[lizma]

Who is making up all these crap words????

I've read that good-bye was slang for Godspeed and the older generation at the time was just mortified.

Language evolves. Not always in the right direction.

[ApesForEvolution]

I'm holding on to my older versions of Webster's...for future generations to have a clue where it all went so wrong.

[Katya]

Who is making up all these crap words???? Do we really have to accept all this nonsense and put it into the dictionary?

Oh come on....you're starting to sound french....perhaps you'd like us to start an academy for the preservation of the english language.