"Brain rot" is a perfect phrase for this past year.
Word of the Year!..................
"Brain rot" is a perfect phrase for this past year.
They even describe it as a term, yet here it is “word” of the year.
This is what passes for the pinnacle of higher education today.
Not much of a list from which to choose:
The shortlist, now open to public vote, is as follows:
• Lore (n.): A body of (supposed) facts, background information, and anecdotes relating to someone or something, regarded as knowledge required for full understanding or informed discussion of the subject in question.
• Brain rot (n.): 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 characterised as likely to lead to such deterioration.
• Dynamic pricing (n.): The practice of varying the price for a product or service to reflect changing market conditions; in particular, the charging of a higher price at a time of greater demand.
• Demure (adj.): Of a person: reserved or restrained in appearance or behaviour. Of clothing: not showy, ostentatious, or overly revealing.
• Slop (n.): Art, writing, or other content generated using artificial intelligence, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate or intrusive way, and characterised as being of low quality, inauthentic, or inaccurate.
• Romantasy (n.): A genre of fiction combining elements of romantic fiction and fantasy, typically featuring themes of magic, the supernatural, or adventure alongside a central romantic storyline.
I’d have voted for “bigly” or “yuuuge” myself.
That’s two words. Which, given the source, isn’t surprising.
;^)
That’s two words. Is that two years’ worth of words of the year?
Can we thank Biden for this?
Root rot!