my new BFF,
for keeping up-to-date
on pap and Wags and TMI
OMG, I can’t believe you
validated our texting world
of abbreviated speak.
No smack talk. No.
I raise a glass of flat white to you
and munch a doughnut hole.
And I won’t show off my muffin top, LOL
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The Oxford English Dictionary announced its newest words selected for publication (some used above in my silly poem) and a bunch were text-talk.
FYI, the dictionary carries the modest subtitle: The definitive record of the English language. It dates back 150 years and includes the history and meaning of 600,000 words. The photo is early editor James Murray in the Scriptorium.
It’s published by Oxford University, which dates from the 11th century and is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Among a long list of writers associated with Oxford: Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Graham Greene, William Golding, V.S. Naipaul, Phillip Pullman, John Donne, T.S. Elliot.
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Don’t you feel erudite, now? Here are a few of my favorites from the new list: couch surfer
fabless
dot-bomb
rotoscoped
tinfoil hat
ick factor
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* la-la-la-la-la. I'm singing like the la-la land girl I am. *grins*
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PS: I'm having a world of trouble with keeping paragraph spaces in my Blogger posts. This is about the sixth try. So please forgive any weirdness.
