Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoMacquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic facewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1219arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1212arrow-down1external-linkMacquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic facewww.theguardian.comLady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMagnificentSteiner@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down6·24 hours agoThat is 2 words (or 3 depending how you count the abbreviation). You’d think a dictionary could get that right.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·24 hours agohttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/compounds
minus-squarehelpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·12 hours agoNeither of those are 1 word. At least hyphen them to pretend they’re one word.
minus-squareEccentric@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·13 hours agoFun fact: linguists don’t actually know what defines a “word”
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoWhy is this downvoted, it’s actually a real thing Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear
That is 2 words (or 3 depending how you count the abbreviation). You’d think a dictionary could get that right.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/compounds
Neither of those are 1 word. At least hyphen them to pretend they’re one word.
Fun fact: linguists don’t actually know what defines a “word”
Why is this downvoted, it’s actually a real thing
Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear