Although we record a fair few nouns which are written with a comma, like the game duck, duck, goose or the shrub yesterday, today and tomorrow, and even a small number of adjectives ( all-singing, all-dancing and knock-down, drag-out, for example), this is the first verb with a comma we’ve come across. Our next discovery is orthographically interesting: yes, and, which means ‘to encourage someone to pursue an idea, by joining them in their line of thought’. Not particularly heinous as far as villainy goes, perhaps, but many of those embracing the term are young women who are enthusiastically acting against expectations by behaving in this way. For example: Yesterday we were at Jims party and I felt like a fish out of water. Now they’re joined by villain era: a period marked by the prioritising of one's own needs and desires before those of others. Definition and synonyms of a fish out of water from the online English. working over them patiently she at length painted whole trees, and later animals. Also in our database is slay era (essentially flop era’s opposite). Find 42 ways to say WORKING PARTY, along with antonyms, related words. Speaking of eras, perhaps you’ll recall that flop era (defined as ‘a period marked by failure and lack of achievement’) was on our 2022 Word of the Year longlist just a few months ago.
Now, in the era of YouTube and TikTok, we have algospeak, in which emojis, euphemisms and deliberate mispronunciations have joined the arsenals of users looking to evade much more sophisticated detection tools.
It’s hypothesised to have been created to prevent primitive moderation systems from detecting the discussion of illicit topics. Have you heard of leet (or leetspeak)? It’s a form of communication used online, invented by the users of bulletin board systems 40 years ago, in which words are respelt by replacing certain letters with numbers or other symbols that resemble them. Welcome to the inaugural new words blog of 2023!
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