Surprisingly (or I guess, not really anymore), there were a lot of wacky tech and Internet words that made the cut to be included inside the Oxford Dictionaries Online. But here's the thing about adding words we use on the Internet to the English dictionary: we're not really talking English. It may sound like it, it may look like it but it's a whole 'nother lingo altogether. Anyways:
- lolz
- mwahahaha (seriously?)
- photobomb
- ridic
- tweeps
- ethical hacker (this cracks me up)
- hackathon
- hat tip
- lifecasting
- inbox (just now?)
- UX
- video chat
- Wikipedian
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See, I can totally understand how some of those words need defining. UX, inbox, video chat, even hackathon. But words like mwahahaha and ridic are well, ridic. Come on now. Here are some none tech words that are now part of the dictionary and they're even more ridiculous:
- date night
- dirty martini (what?)
- douche (they're an official breed now!)
- DW
- genius (what the fuck?)
- group hug
- guilty pleasure
- hosepipe ban (wait this is seriously what the fuck)
- micropig (a pig of a very small, docile, hairless variety)
- OH
- ripped
- soul patch
- vajazzle
- vote someone/thing off the island (what is this Y2K?
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I need to learn a new language. [Oxford Dictionaries, Image Credit: sergign/Shutterstock]