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roflmao tbqhwyf

I'm nominating AYYOOOOOOOO for word of the year 2016

>social media culture

This is the darkest timeline.

>>7361901
Remember when "web 2.0" was the millionth English word? Back when people listened to evanescence and linkin park unironically. What are we gonna say about this year's pick five years from now?

This shit is getting moronic. I'm all for a descriptive rather than prescriptive but this kind of thing is not in any way relevant for the majority of English speakers. It's almost like they're just aiming for social media shares and controversy with this kind of thing.

>>7361936
>timeline
fuck off back to facefag, normie

language evolves
#sorrynotsorry

http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/oxford-dictionary-selects-face-with-tears-of-joy-emoji-as-2015-word-of-the-year/story-fnjbnts7-1227612165217

>You can see how traditional alphabet scripts have been struggling to meet the rapid-fire, visually focused demands of 21st century communication
>It’s flexible, immediate, and infuses tone beautifully
>As a result emoji are becoming an increasingly rich form of communication, one that transcends linguistic borders

>>7361951
I've heard twitter and facebook are testing just being able to reply with a set of emoji's, honestly sounds insane, people will just be pushing a button to express how they feel about something.

>>7361901
>not this

>>7361947
>>7361955
>language comes full circle
>alphabets go extinct
>language evolve into hieroglyphics again
>chinese will become the leading literary language by easily converting their characters back into pictograms
>thousands of years later someone will rediscover the syllabary
>the great wheel turns again

>>7361963
>implying humans won't be sending data packets of information directly to someone's head 300 years from now

>>7361901
THAT'S NOT A WORD

>>7361951
>It’s flexible, immediate, and infuses tone beautifully

I'd love to see them try to replicate the nuances of that statement with emojis

>>7362194
It will be possible to do so if more top quality emoji's such as >>7361957 and >>7361901 are made

>>7362194
;)

>>7361901
Wait. This isn't a joke?

Get with the times grandpa

#refugeeswelcome #coolclockachmed #rapeculture #caitlyinjennertwerksagainstracism

I think it's just an attempt to stay relevant and hip in an era where simply googling a word replaces any need for a dictionary or the need to go to a name brand dictionary website.

Dictionaries are still cool and I do enjoy reading the definitions of the various words around whatever I am looking for.

>>7362274
>#caitlyinjennertwerksagainstracism

Such a surreal image

>>7361947
and devolves

>>7362274
ARE YOU IMPLYING THAT MY WORLDVIEWS DO NOT EMULATE THOSE OF POP CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN TWO THOUSAND AND FIFTEEN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

>>7361957
>>7361951
>>7361901

Post yfw modern language returns to using fucking hieroglyphs

>>7361901
youth culture

>>7362274
>>7363537

>>7362274
Not even remotely /lit/ related, get out.

>>7363587
The irony in this post crashed my browser.

>>7363635
topkek

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>7362362
>I think it's just an attempt to stay relevant and hip in an era where simply googling a word replaces any need for a dictionary or the need to go to a name brand dictionary website.

And so is the idea of designating a Word of the Year in the first place, isn't it?

It's more interesting to see which words were added to and which ones were removed from each edition.

>>7363587

>>7363537
Please don't be on the wrong side if history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqhMse--cLw

>caring about the OED

ISHYGDDT

>>7361936
Are text messages social media? If they are, then so are letters and phone calls.

>>7361901
here's my word of the year for 2015:
JUST

>>7361936
*the dankest timeline

memes are the equivalent of chemical elements for thought

>>7364741
hi papa pynchon :)

.

:')

Why not communicate by grunts and by making stupid faces.

>>7364899
real nigga hourz
WHO UP TBHFAM?

>>7361957

>>7364817
But we are already doing that, anon.

>>7361901
Will future civilisations refer to this time as the dank period.

This seems like a silly thing to be unable to deal with, but I can't. What the fuck.

>>7361951
Thanks Japan

>>7362274

Wait a minute, this can't be real. At first I was confused and thinking "Well, where's the word?" And I was looking a few posts down the thread for someone to link the actual word. But it really is this fucking emoji.

Shit, its not even a good emoji either. It looks less like "tears of joy" and more like someone laughing at someone else's pain. Not even that, but if you did have tears of joy, you usually dont have a big ass grin but just a mild smile of appreciation and disbelief.

I guess what makes me mad is that not only is it an emoji but it's not even one that represents human experience at all. It's just totally dumb.

>>7365616
(汗)

>>7365626
>schadenfreude is not part of the human experience
I'm autistic too anon, but you're on an extreme end of the spectrum if you think that.

>makes me mad
I don't understand the butthurt in this thread. No one really cares for OED and it's just a gimmick. Nothing to get riled up about.

>>7365632

But you're missing my point. This emoji is meant to represent tears of joy, not schadenfreude. But it represents the latter much more.

>>7361901
This thread stinks of high school and freshman year of college :kissing_heart:

to be honest family

>>7365661
this desu baka desu senpai imo lmao

>>7365122

>>7365667

Get with the times grandpa.

#refugeeswcome #coolclockachmed #rapeculture #caitlynjennertwerksagainstracism

Reposting because there was no reason this should have been deleted.

>>7366109
It was deleted because you can't spell "welcome", you troglodyte.

>>7365799
>tfw I just wrote a novel

Pic related. It's called The Joy of Never Ever.

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>>7361901
Imagine if top word of the year was Pepe picture.

>>7366114
>not using an iPhone to use 4chan

I mean come on, it's 2015.

>>7361957
>not this

>>7361947
#welanguagenow

>yfw this normie shit gets recognized but the linguistic brilliance of the pepe never will be

>>7366162

>Selfies
>Binge watching
>Now THIS

That's it, modern language is fucking dead.

>>7366188
binge watching is not that bad. this emoji shit is the beginning of the end though.

>>7366232
>this emoji shit is the beginning of the end though
nah it's merely part of the problem

>>7366232

I prefer saying "marathoning a series", binge watching just sounds incredibly forced but not as phony as the word "selfie", can't believe that caught on quickly.

>Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by eactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. . . . The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for commiting thought-crime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. . . . Has it ever occcured to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?

>>7361901
Language evolves. Every linguist will tell you this. Get over it.

>>7366826
*devolves

>>7361943
you're serious

>>7365122
Using those two emojis combined is literally the same than admitting you're mentally retarded

>>7366379

scary shit man

>>7366379
Arrgh!

>>7367296
>the same than

>>7361901
I can't believe it's not JIHAD or ISIS.

>>7361943
>thinking facebook invented the concept of a timeline.

WOW
O
W

>>7361901
>>7365799
fug :DDD

>>7366379
>Every year fewer and fewer words

except the english language has only added more and more words

>>7361951
It's not transcending anything

>>7361951
You see, this is what happens when you let negroes and women run free.

>>7368598
Community is normie shit and belongs on normiebook senpai

>>7366379

>>7368618
you can't be this retarded

>>7368618
this nigger right here