Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoMacquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic facewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1231arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1225arrow-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 · 4 days agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMagnificentSteiner@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down7·4 days 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-up15arrow-down2·4 days agohttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/compounds
minus-squareEccentric@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·4 days agoFun fact: linguists don’t actually know what defines a “word”
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days 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
minus-squarehelpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·4 days agoNeither of those are 1 word. At least hyphen them to pretend they’re one word.
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
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
Neither of those are 1 word. At least hyphen them to pretend they’re one word.