Lang in the News gave us a chance to talk about our favourite publication, The Mail Online, and why its readers hate young people, Black people and foreign people, and why English is being ruined by everyone who isn’t them. We also did a quick round-up of other news stories about #WOTY2023 and AI.

The Lang in the News segment let us talk about one of our favourite publications, The Mail Online, why its readers hate people who are young, Black or foreign, & why English is being ruined by everyone who isn’t them. We also did a quick round-up of other news stories about #WOTY2023 and AI.

In this weekend's WSJ Review section: "Stochastic parrot" (coinage of @emilymbender.bsky.social and winner of @americandialect.bsky.social's AI-Related Word of the Year) has proven to be a useful term for puncturing the hype surrounding AI ventures like ChatGPT. #woty2023 on.wsj.com/47DKfVf

The Triumph of the Swears The American Dialect Society named “enshittification” word of the year for 2023. But the sweariness didn’t stop there.

New from me on Medium: The triumph of the swears. Ht @benzimmer.bsky.social @stancarey.bsky.social @stronglang.bsky.social @americandialect.bsky.social (friend link) medium.com/@wordworking... #woty2023

"Stochastic parrot," coined by @emilymbender.bsky.social for "large language models that...do not truly understand the meaning of the language they are processing," was recognized as AI-Related Word of the Year by @americandialect.bsky.social. My latest for WSJ. 🦜 #woty2023 on.wsj.com/47DKfVf

For the Planet Word Museum blog, Kelly Wright and I chat about how @americandialect.bsky.social went about selecting its Word of the Year for 2023. #woty2023 planetwordmuseum.org/choosing-the...

Among Linguists, the Word of the Year Is More of a Vibe The American Dialect Society selected a term that refers to the deterioration of online platforms.

Great metaphor by Dr. Kelly Wright in this NYT writeup of #woty2023

(The red carpet event of #LSA2024!)

www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/c...

On @fillmeinpodcast.bsky.social with @cimmet.bsky.social, I do a full recap of the @americandialect.bsky.social 2023 Word of the Year voting starting at 50 minutes in. Beware of racy language! #woty2023 bemoresmarter.libsyn.com/fill-me-in-4...

Off-the-charts rizz for today's #ThatWordChat.

www.markalleneditorial.com/thatwordchat

#words #woty #woty2023

For our biggest show of the year, we welcome an international panel of wordies: @grantbarrett.com, @lanegreene.bsky.social, Fiona McPherson, @lynneguist.bsky.social, WendalynNichols, @petersokolowski.bsky.social, Kelly Wright, and @benzimmer.bsky.social.

#words #woty #woty2023

Don't forget about Tuesday's #ThatWordChat featuring a panel of eight lexicographers talking about the words of the year for 2023.

Sign up here: www.markalleneditorial.com/thatwordchat

#words #woty #woty2023

The sweary WotYs The calendar year 2023 was a miserable one in countless ways — wars, abortion rights, record high temperatures, the decline and fall of Twitter/X — but it was the best of times for the mainstreami...

New from me on the @stronglang.bsky.social blog: the sweariest words of the year. | ht @benzimmer.bsky.social @jessesword.com @americandialect.bsky.social @katzish.bsky.social stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/t... #woty2023 #woty

Crossover between #lsa2024 and #woty2023! Here’s your definition of the AI WOTY: Stochastic Parrot

Word of the year chosen by linguists assembled for the @americandialect.bsky.social conference: enshittification. Posting here and not on the platform that prompted it.

#woty2023

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#woty2023 🐦🐦

Congratulations to LordMortis who suggested ENSHITTIFICATION to us as a Word of the Week, to our listeners and friends who voted for it as #WotY2023, and above all to Cory Doctorow who coined it.

Watch our interview with Cory here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq0k...

Ryan Gosling as Ken in the Barbie movie, wearing two pairs of sunglasses and thinking he’s hot shit

Me after my “Kenaissance” nomination won most creative word of the year #WOTY2023 #ADS2024

Hey, Cory Doctorow, this one's for you!

And good luck, @benzimmer.bsky.social, with your #woty2023 press tour.

This marks two years in a row of difficult-for-mainstream publications WOTY winners! I suggest we make up 'perfuckening' for 2024 #woty2023 #lsa2024

Enshittification is the Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024

(derogatory) wins Most Useful/Most Likely to Succeed Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024

w00t! I had "enshittification" as my overall #woty2023

Enshittification is the Digital Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024

By a hair, let (someone) cook is Informal Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024

INFORMAL WORD OF THE YEAR babygirl: older male fictional character or celebrity seen as emotionally damaged or vulnerable gyat, gyatt: exclamation expressing surprise, excitement, or admiration let (someone) cook: allow a person to do something that they are good at without interference. Thank you. rizz: charm or attractiveness, used as a combining form or blend component (rizzler, pre-rizz-toric) (derogatory) post-inserted adjectival aside VOTE

word of the year vote (derogatory) (jk)

#woty2023

The other nominees fucked around and found out, as FAFO wins Acronym/Initialism of the Year! #woty2023

Stochastic Parrot is AI-Related Word of the Year! #woty2023

Surely due to the strong lobbying of @mixedlinguist.bsky.social, we are now in a new Kenaissance, as it's Most Creative Word of the Year #woty2023

Structurally Restrictive Housing is Euphemism of the Year! #Woty2023

Risotto in a coffee cup in an auditorium

I'm eating risotto from a coffee cup while we vote for the #WOTY2023 life is good