Transcript time! You can read our episode with Kelly Wright about the @americandialect.org #WotY2024 vote. And we've updated our winning word.
www.patreon.com/posts/transc...
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Because Language Episode 112: WotY 2024: The Last Word (with Kelly Wright) What really goes on behind the scenes at the biggest Word of the Year vote in linguistdom? Are we really going to stick with sanewashing for our word? And which words did we miss? We lock in and crash out with New Words Data Czar Dr Kelly Wright.
• b e c a u s e • l a n g u a g e •
• episode 112 | woty 2024: the last word
• with dr. kelly wright
• becauselanguage.com/112-woty-202...
#langsky #linguistics #WotY2024
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There's still more #WotY2024!
Latvia's is apritīgs 'circular' (as in circular economy)
For non-word of the year and other categories, see:
eng.lsm.lv/article/cult...
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Another PR company #WotY2024, this one from the Philippines: RAGE
“Our choice of rage isn’t just about anger; it’s about energy,”
www.adobomagazine.com/press-releas...
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Some positive (kind of) #WOTY2024 news...
BBC News - Word of the Year: Kindness wins children's 2024 vote - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I say a bit about all these international #WotY2024 on last week's @thatwordchat.bsky.social episode, now available on YouTube.
With @benzimmer.bsky.social @petersokolowski.bsky.social @wendalynnichols.bsky.social inter alia!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dso...
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And the Latin (why not?) #WotY2024 (Vox anni MMXXIV) is the onomatopoetic RETOTATOTOTATO:
thesaurus.badw.de/en/news.html
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I keep saying 'surely that's the last #WotY2024 post', but no! They keep coming!
Academy of the Hebrew Language chooses HATUFIM 'hostages'. No English news sources I've found present it untransliterated. Is it חטופים? (Google translates that as 'abducted')
www.timesofisrael.com/israelis-cho...
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One more Youth #WotY2024 that I'd missed (they announced it in October?!?!) AURA in Germany
www.euronews.com/culture/2024....
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#WOTY2024 winners, according to my first group of high school linguists:
Most likely to succeed: aura (see I told you guys)
Political WOTY: weird
Digital WOTY: brainrot
Informal WOTY: yap
Most creative: in da clerb, we all fam
Fun while it lasted: hawk tuah
Most useful: crash out
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About to give my high school linguists the #WOTY2024 ballot. Let’s see how mad they get.
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“Rawdog,” @americandialect.org's word of the year, has undergone at least two semantic shifts, from nonsexual to sexual and back to nonsexual. | Ht @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social @misterslang.bsky.social @wordorigins.bsky.social @lingsocam.bsky.social fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-th... #woty2024
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Since we're talking about the semantic shift that led to "rawdog" becoming @americandialect.org's word of the year for 2024: Decades before it meant "sex without a condom," raw dog meant "to treat someone worse than a dog." #woty2024 | @misterslang.bsky.social greensdictofslang.com/entry/jcmavka
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And the American Dialect Society #WotY2024 is RAWDOG.
This probably ends #WotY2024 season, but who knows?
Read this for more:
bsky.app/profile/benz...
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The ultimate #WOTY2024 arbitrators have spoken. All other WOTYs can stand down until the end of 2025.
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"Rawdog" is the 2024 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/2024-word-of...
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"Rawdog" is the 2024 American Dialect Society word of the year. Read the full press release. #WOTY2024 #ADS2025 #LSA2025 americandialect.org/2024-word-of...
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"Rawdogging" was also a runner-up for #woty2024 from the Macquarie Dictionary in Australia and the Collins Dictionary (at least).
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A great word! RAWDOGGING was our number 2 pick.
Feel free to celebrate in an appropriately thematic way!
@americandialect.org #woty2024
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we linguists like to think that we can study risqué words dispassionately
but we're actually just pretty naughty
like, that's three in a row
so what's up with that, linguists
#WotY2024
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I am actually pretty envious of the #WotY2024 from the @americandialect.org
RAWDOGGING did really well in our WotY vote, but it wasn't #1, and I wish it had been
especially over sane-washing
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fun fact
most @americandialect.org Words of the Year are actually motivated by linguists amused by @benzimmer.bsky.social having to say the words in public
#woty2024
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