'Brain rot' named Oxford Word of the Year 2024 - Oxford University Press
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'Brain rot' named Oxford Word of the Year 2024 - Oxford University Press
“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
Macquarie Dictionary has named the 2024 word of the year enshittification ... no it has nothing to do with 💩 Rawdogging, fairy porn, brainrot and right to disconnect also made the shortlist. Choose your news on the ABC News app and stay in the know via the link in our bio. #ABCNews #WordOfTheYear
instagram.comthe mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
common to all is the most singular characteristic of the new spoken-written language of social media: brevity. This is a land where vowels are dropped, phrases condensed to acronyms, sounds reduced to numbers, and most punctuation forgotten.
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
The decline in the word action accelerated during the same period that saw the rise (shown above) in the word fake. They are mirror images of the same cultural shift.