Are you a digital nomad? Are you angry about the cultivation of Hell today? Then congratulations, you helped usher in those new terms Dictionary.com latest update.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made us more aware of the people lucky enough to work remotely while they live Digital nomad Life is on the road, and I have certainly seen people angry farming (defined as “a tactic of deliberately provoking political opponents”) in the problematic landscape of hell (“a hopeless, intolerable, or irredeemable place or time”) that is the discourse on the Internet today.
Or Metas… It’s a flexible term that can mean “serious, absolutely, real, honest, or true; indeed.”
These are just four of the 313 new words, 130 new definitions and 1,140 revised definitions that have been added to Dictionary.com’s online repository for the language in its new revision.
Language, as always, is constantly changing. John Kelly said, managing editor at Dictionary.com, in a statement. “Our team of lexicographers documents and contextualizes the unstoppable maelstrom of the English language – not only to help us better understand our changing times, but how the times we live in are, in turn, changing our language.”
Other extras include dumping shocksAnd petfluencerAnd Anti-shatter And chemicals foreverthe latter indicating an outbreak of a problem PFAS in the environment.
The pandemic has also helped usher in new health-related terminology such as Super Dodgermeaning “any person who, for uncertain reasons, remains uninfected or asymptomatic even after repeated exposure to an infectious virus.”
The latest version of the dictionary also sees a number of terms related to gaming and, for some reason, baking being added or revised. Parathaanyone?
Nobody ever said our language had to be gluten-free, and I think both our speech and pizza are better for it.
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