Submitted 4 days ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/25/ai-slop-word-of-the-year-macquarie-dictionary-australia
We did it lemmy!
That is 2 words (or 3 depending how you count the abbreviation). You’d think a dictionary could get that right.
dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/…/compounds
Fun fact: linguists don’t actually know what defines a “word”
Why is this downvoted, it’s actually a real thing
Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear
Neither of those are 1 word. At least hyphen them to pretend they’re one word.
Personally I think it should have been six seven
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
That is 2 words (or 3 depending how you count the abbreviation). You’d think a dictionary could get that right.
frongt@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/…/compounds
Eccentric@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Fun fact: linguists don’t actually know what defines a “word”
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Why is this downvoted, it’s actually a real thing
Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Neither of those are 1 word. At least hyphen them to pretend they’re one word.