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Showcasing the brazen and nouveau in English communication.
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I understood exactly what they meant and was pretty sure it wasn't just an acronym so I looked it up.
It IS a word but it isn't (officially) a synonym of "imitates" - just the verb form of LARP.
Not fighting for either side, just thought it was interesting
Fact, but "w00t" is. ๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ Ergo, said "official" status is bullshit at best, and simply another dino system failing to keep up.
I don't disagree, I use words as they're understood whether they have an established definition or not.
The exact point I stopped caring was when I saw the wild and zany news article about Bootylicious getting added. Like oh....you just add slang for publicity and pick the ones most likely to hit the morning shows
Yup. This is the way it's always been, just with the pedestrian masses having less access to said process and its prescriptivist pool of gatekeepers. ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ