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Snowflakes - It's official!

  1. alam Apr 26, 2019

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    "Merriam-Webster has added hundreds of new words to its dictionary, reflecting increased usage in popular culture.

    The Springfield, Massachusetts-based company on Monday added words like swole, bug-out bag and omnicide to the roughly half-million words already listed.

    Swole means to get muscular, a bug-out bag is a bag packed with survival supplies, and omnicide means the destruction of all life.

    Some words are more familiar, they just have new meanings, for example snowflake, which now also has a usually disparaging meaning of "someone who is overly sensitive"

    Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor at large, says the company's lexicographers scan online versions of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books and even movie and television scripts until they detect what he calls "a critical mass" of usage that warrants inclusion in the dictionary."
    BOSTON (AP).

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  2. jhross98 Apr 26, 2019

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  3. jhross98 Apr 26, 2019

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  4. alam Apr 26, 2019

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    I do like the overall look of these dive watches, one detail I don't get is the hour hand - that's a very nice one, year?
     
  5. MTROIS Apr 26, 2019

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    @jhross98: any idea why some of the snowflakes have the crown so damaged??
    Not the first time I see this…
     
  6. jhross98 Apr 27, 2019

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    i thought this was a pithy tongue in cheek discussion not a watch discussion. ..
     
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  7. queriver Apr 27, 2019

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    Am I missing something? None of these descriptions for EGOT look dictionaryworthy (if that's a word).

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  8. alam Apr 27, 2019

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  9. queriver Apr 27, 2019

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    Nah, they're probably a bunch of snowflakes who'll melt if a bully like me complains to them about formalising a label for a minority group of 15 people.
     
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  10. 77deluxe Apr 27, 2019

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    Gotta find a way to keep selling new dictionaries.
     
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  11. Professor Apr 27, 2019

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    Only heard of these Snowflakes a few months ago.
    seiko snowflake.jpg
     
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  12. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Apr 27, 2019

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  13. michael22 Apr 27, 2019

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    All around the world, dictionaries are adding phrases. It really irritates me. "bug-out bag" for example. It may warrant an entry if the phrase had a different meaning to the actual words, but they rarely do.
     
  14. michael22 Apr 27, 2019

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    Perhaps they had to remove "acronym" last year, to make room for all this new junk.
     
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  15. alam Apr 28, 2019

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    did you chase away 1-6 ?? :p
     
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  16. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Apr 28, 2019

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    They never made it to registration for some reason, might have been a touch capricious ;)
     
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  17. alam Apr 28, 2019

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    I guess the Squirrel was tough and demanding during the registration approval process :p