Collins English Dictionary Reveals Several New Words

[Avi]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081117/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_new_word

Kind of interesting to me.  Internet and pop jargon is increasingly being incorporated into real language...

[HairyHeretic]

Language evolves over time. That's simply the way of it. I'm not at all surprised to see this.

[Inkidu]

Hey just because it's now a word doesn't mean it's still paper worthy. Besides if Webster or Oxford doesn't accept it who cares... Just kidding.

[HairyHeretic]

Those that are worthy will be adopted into everyday use. Those that aren't will fade away.

[Inkidu]

Those that are worthy will be adopted into everyday use. Those that aren't will fade away.

Heck, that doesn't guarantee it'll stick. :|

[HairyHeretic]

Nope, but it may well stick around for a time.

[The Overlord]

I use heh all the time, meh every so often.

I hate 'frenemy' though, to the point that I'm going to hard pressed not to slug anyone I hear using it in a professional context such as a job. It needs to go into trash heap along with overused terminology like diva. Not every female pop star that makes more than three albums is a diva, and Sir Elton John is most certainly not a diva...he's a gay dude with a huge recording career.

I think if we add words to the lexicon we should trim out the stupid ones.

That includes phrases too make me Overlord of The Universe and nobody will be able to say 'on the go' under any context whatsoever. Freaking stupid.

[Oniya]

If it helps any, when I first saw 'frenemy' (in that article, as it happens), my first thought was that it looked like 'frenulum' - and that association alone makes it impossible to use around me without gales of inappropriate laughter at the speaker.

And for what it's worth, the exclamation "Oh, get out!" should just go.  (All apologies to George Carlin for the probable misquote.)

[The Overlord]

And for what it's worth, the exclamation "Oh, get out!" should just go. 

Actually, I am thinking that was Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes.

^(wiki) Elaine's signature move is expressing incredulity by frontally shoving people while yelling "Get out!" after hearing unbelievable news. It sometimes causes the person to fall down or trip.

[Oniya]

Yes, but I think that George Carlin used it in his monologue about how white women should "Stop. trying. to be black."  The whole 'Girlfriend!' thing.  *gags*