The latest edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary will include the following new words:
frenemy - one who acts like a friend but is really an enemy
locavore - one who eats only locally-grown food
vlogs - a blog that contain video material
webisode - a TV show you can watch online
staycation - staying in your home area while on vacation from work
There are others, such as flash mob and waterboarding, but what irks me about the ones I've mentioned above are that they are two words mashed together. In addition to how generally annoying that is, it makes me worry about the future of our language. Everything is getting shorter (from newspapers to blogs to Twitter; or letters to emails to texts, for example).
Will we soon (read - in a few hundred years) come full circle back to communicating in grunts?
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