The Oxford English Dictionary on 60 minutes

[@Luke-we9gj]

Who else is reading this for Professor Doty's Introduction to Linguistics class lol

[@autumnwindham3394]

Me!

[@maximusaugustus6823]

I want this book set because 3rd edition will never be printed.

[@kadenrodgers5389]

I agree with the older gentleman. We should not acknowledge slang. What do the rest of you think?

[@gigglesscreen]

So sad that people would think it's ok for the urban dictionary to be in the OED just because they found some history on silly words like ba dum pum. How can we think that lowering standards in our words helps society. I feel ,for myself, that I have been robbed of an education because people have lowered standards in school and that is why I don't have skills in spelling or grammar. Lord helps that we don't start talking like Snoop Dog, fo rizzle. 😭

[@CaptainCritical]

Don't like Sewell, but I'm inclined to agree with him on this issue.

[@jakeornot6306]

@@gigglesscreen Agreed. There are plenty of other dictionaries that can contain the lowest slang. I have a very old OED and that is the dictionary I will trust. And now, social media people are dictating what it contains, thanks to this idiot editor.

[@outisaudio5838]

While it's reasonable to exclude slang from an everyday dictionary, the OED is meant to have every English word ever written, ever. While including words which have no record in print (like Pistol for Pastrami) seems a little presumptuous, it is true to the mission of the OED not to discriminate against 'young' words any more than 'obscure' words. Just as lexicographers today find joy in discovering neat, short-lived terms of antiquity, so too shall future ones in the short-lived slang of our present day. It should not be forgotten that our present shall be the future's distant past, and some yet unborn historian will wonder what the hell a "Yeet" is, unless someone refuses to be stuffy enough to write it down in the OED, if perhaps with a slight shake of the head and a noncomprehending sigh.

[@fritzy91]

Language is constantly evolving and constantly becoming. “Slang” isn't a thing because we made it a thing. Black English given it's history with the transatlantic slave trade, the concepts of language contact, language change, language acquisition, and language variety pidgin language and creolization should validate the use of black English as a language even though people perceive black English to be “slang”. Language isn't a fixed thing it's a constantly evolving one. To not incorporate black English in the dictionary harms the concept of what we call language. Black English grew along side with “standard english” and wasn't given credibility in the time the dictionary was invented to standardize the language because black slaves or slaves weren't even considered human and often overlooked. Slaves weren't even allowed access to education or given the privilege to read or write when “standard English” was being published they weren't even considered citizens. We have to take account the consciousness of the time. And even Noah Webster added “slang” but disregarded black English... It's not adding up. As the young generation says, “The math is not mathing.”

[@vancepomerening4794]

Just the age old dispute between descriptive and proscriptive linguistics.

[@ambermchugh9381]

Like stove/ cooker or caretaker /carer???

[@CowPalace1]

Alutious definition of

[@YourAashique]

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[@maximusaugustus6823]

yada yada yada should have never been put into that dictionary.

[@kalevra6999]

That's always been the problem with the British they live in the past

[@whisperingmike9424]

Nathan thurm…

[@JazzRadioFfm]

that snob is just ridiculous. he doesn't understand what the oed talks is...

[@YadavJi-qh8gb]

He reminds me of Sheldon Cooper from TBBT!

[@seraphim3r]

is kind of terrible how pop culture creeps into every aspect of our lives.