Posted on 07/22/2021 12:54:33 PM PDT by Jewbacca
Dictionary.com is adding more than 300 words and definitions to its latest lexicon update to reflect changes in the culture, along with what appears to be, in part, a dollop or more of corporate political correctness.
New additions, abbreviations, and expanded explanations include 5G, content warning, cultural appropriation, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), deplatform, JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion), long COVID, side hustle, TW (trigger warning), yeet, and zaddy.
“The latest update to our dictionary continues to mirror the world around us…it’s a complicated and challenging society we live in, and language changes to help us grapple with it. But sometimes language changes just for fun,” John Kelly, the online platform’s managing editor, said in a statement.
“Perhaps these lighter slang and pop culture newcomers to our dictionary reflect another important aspect of our time—a cautious optimism and a brighter mood about the future ahead after a trying 2020,” he added.
“Changes in the branding of major products such as Aunt Jemima and Edy’s Pies are now documented on Dictionary.com and reflect a shift away from the use of racist stereotypes in marketing,” Dictionary.com also explained. The former is now known as Pearl Milling Company and the latter was formerly known as Eskimo Pies.
According to Dictionary.com, yeet is “an exclamation of enthusiasm, approval, triumph, pleasure, joy, etc.”
And zaddy is “an attractive man who is also stylish, charming, and self-confident,” according to the digital compilation.
Ex-NBA player Kwame Brown, who has developed a massive YouTube following practically overnight, often uses the term “zaddy” to describe those purported behind-the-scenes bosses who are allegedly giving counter-productive marching orders to divisive, virtue-signaling media personalities whom he deems the go-along-get-along gang.
Entirely separately, the New York Post claims that “Law & Order” actor Christopher Meloni has inspired “memes and shout outs dubbing him a ‘zaddy.'” Dictionary.com got into vocabulary beef late last year when it redefined the term court-packing to seemingly comply with Democrat spin. There is a cohort of the Democrat Party that wants to expand the U.S. Supreme Court to 15 members as a way to dilute the current conservative, or perceived conservative, majority with the addition of far-left activist judges.
The original definition, which centered on President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unsuccessful efforts to add justices to the U.S. Supreme Court who would rubber-stamp his New Deal policies, was bumped to second place.
In response to the glossary controversy, Dictionary.com announced on social media that “Language evolves. So do we.”
Dictionary.com is also one of several organizations that designates a word (or phrase) of the year as each calendar year winds down.
In late 2020, Dictionary.com, perhaps not surprisingly, chose pandemic (as did Merriam-Webster) as its word of the year. Unprecedented was Dictionary.com’s “people’s choice” word of the year for 2020. The prestigious Oxford Dictionary concluded, however, that 2020 was so unprecedented that the year could not be summed up by just one word.
"Zaddy" is Yiddish for "grandpa".
How "zaddy" got from "old Jewish grandpa" to what-it-is-today is something Sigmund Freud would have a lot to say about.
I’ve heard people talk about buying “merch” when they mean merchandise. And talk of “vacay”, when they mean vacation.
It makes me think some people are talking in text message abbreviations.
I’ve even heard someone say out loud, LOL, as they laughed at something.
I think, “Blap” should be a new word.
How about “gibmedats” and “dindoonuffin”?
Just what the world needs. More rap. 🤪
Well played.
she-man
corn pop
c'mon man
“Bubbe” is the new MILF, I guess.
It’s absurd.
Wasssist is a new popular term for toddlers.
is oof anything like Unnngh?
“it’s a complicated and challenging society we live in”:
Not really. It is merely plagued by freaks, pinkos, and perverts.
Never make it.
The dictionaries today revise words to fit liberal agendas.
“Racism” is now something only white people do.
I thought that was a "Sugar Daddy"....................
“It makes me think some people are talking in text message abbreviations.
FWIW, I agree - it almost certainly is that, but IDK.
Sugar is bad mumbo. It's now Zaddy Daddy.
“I thought that was a “Sugar Daddy”..................”
No, a sugar daddy can be ugly. Indeed, that’s implied.
A zaddy could pay, but doesn’t have to.
(I read into this a bit trying to figure out how the leap was made from “grandpa” to what-it-is, and really am not satisfied I know.)
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Oy!
LOL
;D
The Freudian reference.
I thought it was apt and spot on.
:)
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