2023 年无疑是 "ChatGPT "年。 选择题 1. According to the passage, what criteria did Oxford Dictionaries use for selecting its Word of the Year? A) The word's relevance to technology. B) The frequency of the word's lookup on their website. C) The word's popularity among younger ...
[02:11.72]The editors at Britain's Oxford University Press say [02:16.88]usage of its word of the year selection, brain rot, [02:22.12]increased by 230 percent from 2023 to 2024. [02:30.80]Oxford defines brain rot [02...
I usually ignore these “word of the year” stories, which are basically clickbait for lexicographers, but hell, this one (by Helen Bushby for BBC) includes splooting (“The act of lying flat on the stomach with the legs stretched out” — see this LH post), so how could I not post...
“Why do these two Johnsons matter today?” you ask. Excellent question. The influence of these two Samuel Johnsons is not just relegated to the history books; their legacies reverberate in our lives today. For the lexicographer Samuel Johnson, we live in a world that is able to communicate ...
In 2022, the Oxford Dictionarynamed“goblin mode” its Word of the Year. It means to be unapologetically self-indulgent, as in, “Kyrie Irving went into goblin modewhen he spewed a bunch of nonsense as if he knew what he was talking about.” ...
“The lookalike contests are so Great Depression era coded,” posted writer Jeremy O. Harris in one great example of the genre. Ending sentences with the word coded? Very 2024-coded. Romantasy Deserving of its place on the Oxford words of the year shortlist if not necessarily a s...
Vax is the Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year for 2021; it is an abbreviation. All types of shortened words and phrases are technically abbreviations, but we generally use this term to denote shortened words—for example, Dr. in place of Doctor, etc. in place of et cetera, A.D...
rizz (noun): the ability to attract a romantic partner through style, charm, or physical appeal; charisma (*Oxford University Press’ word of the year for 2023) sabb (noun): short for sabbatical officer, a student who holds a full-time paid position in a student union or similar body sh...
After analyzing 14.5 billion words used in daily news coverage in 2021, The Oxford English Dictionary has chosen “vax” as the Word of the Year. Oxford Languages, the publisher of the dictionary, reported that “Vax”, the shortened term for “vaccine”, has injected itself into the bloodstr...
and studiedthe Affair at the Bungalow before saying goodnight toThe Baron in the Trees. I have so much fun with this every year! Have you tried with the titles of the books you read in 2024? *** A bigTHANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU, ...