Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet?

Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by ghostcluster on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:50PM (#16461952)

I find Urban Dictionary to be the most fascinating dictionary project in the era of the Internet, and much more contemporaneously useful.

By the time a term enters the OED, it's already fairly dry, or the editors are jumping on a bandwagon in an attempt to meme a word into existence for political reasons. Witness the Oxford English Dictoary's 'Word of the Year 2017': youthquake. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-t...

Good luck trying to hold onto relevance with stunts like that.

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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by nasredin on Sunday February 25, 2018 @07:03PM (#16462006)

I am so quietly proud of myself.

I managed to not learn the definition of that "word of the year". Through all the news articles about their decision, the outrage, I remain in blissful ignorance, content with my superiority over the Steve Buscemis at OED.

"How do you do, fellow kids?"

Personally I enjoy and visit UD more often than OED.

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