#newwords — Public Fediverse posts
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Wizdiot (wizz-dee-uht): An idiot who, through no wisdom, intelligence, or cunning of their own, makes others wiser through their gormless gaffs.
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We're coming into the final stretch of 2025. And I thought I'd share some new words that I have learned this year. Now they may not be new you all young, hip, jive crazy cool cats, but they're new to me, and if they're new to you as well, then you'll learn them in much the same way that I did:
Against my will.
Clanker (noun)
Clanker is a derogatory term for robots and AI technology.
We may already have the word of the year, if not the decade: clanker. Originating from the Star Wars universe, it has become a catch-all term used to refer to robots and AI. Any technology can be referred to as a clanker.
—Catherine Prasifka, Irish Independent, 14 Aug. 2025https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/clanker
Cogsucker (noun)
A cogsucker is someone a little too obsessed with LLMs, chatbots, and AI companions. Whether they're using ChatGPT as a therapist, falling in love with Grok, or treating Replika like a best friend, these are examples that you can find populating the /r/cogsuckers subreddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/cogsuckers/
#UpdateTheOldLexicon #NewWords #NewWordsForYou #Clanker #Cogsucker #NewCustomDictionary
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@Professor_Stevens @Tooden @georgetakei
Mark Birdsall has "always thought that America The Beautiful was a better anthem than the Star Spangled Banner" [the vocal range is definitely more accessible!] ... but that "the verse with 'alabaster cities undimmed by human tears' did not fit the reality at all".
His suggested replacement:
O beautiful for blood long shed
In Freedom's labor pains,
The sweat and tears
Of many years
Must never be in vain;
America, America,
Let all hearts beat as one,
And let there be
Equality
From sun to rising sun.https://tech.lgbt/@grinningcat/112726874744744794
#StarSpangledBanner #NationalAnthem #NationalAnthems #AmericaTheBeautiful #NewLyrics #NewWords
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Self-exsplainatory: Something so obvious even middle-aged white dudes realize you actually understand it.
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According to my blog statistics, you will be the first person to view my blog post, "Latest Releases from the Department of New Definitions"
https://medium.com/@daisybrain/latest-releases-from-the-department-of-new-definitions-88483e8ec14e
#puns #wordplay #neology #neologism #neologisms #newwords #wordfun #humor
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#Spouses #NewWords #Sandwiches
My bride of 38 years (yesterday) as she made an egg salad sandwich on Carb-wise bread:
"This new bread is unfoldyoverable."
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My new goal in life is to get sneenernanernu added to Webster's Dictionary by 2045. Be ahead of the curve by using sneenernanernu in a sentence today!
#art #comics #newlifegoal #newwords #sneenernanernu #hurry #inasneenernanernu #inahurry #sneenernanernufairy #hurrygremlin