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[–]QueenBread 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

There's nothing wrong in adding words to the dictionary, when those words become commonly used. It's, you know..... what dictionaries do. In fact, they kinda HAVE to. A dictionary's purpose is exactly that. Someone hears "pangender" or "terf" and wonders wtf that means, and that's why we have dictionaries.

Now..... a very, very different thing is the connotation they give in the explanation of the word. Is it true they chose not to mention that terf is an insult?

[–]ClassroomPast6178 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They chose not to blanket label terf as derogatory because they found enough instances where it wasn’t used in that way.

The OED team elected not to label “Terf” as derogatory on the grounds that it is not universally considered so. (“Gender-critical”, considered by some a more neutral term, was added to the OED earlier this year.) Instead, “typically regarded as derogatory” is included in the definition’s small print, which also notes that the coiner of “Terf” (the OED dates it to 2008 in a blog, hoydenabouttown.com) originally intended it to be a neutral description.

That’s the explanation

[–]QueenBread 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Mmmh.

[–]BISH 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

There's nothing wrong in adding words to the dictionary, when those words become commonly used. It's, you know..... what dictionaries do. In fact, they kinda HAVE to.

You're a teahouse.

[–]QueenBread 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly. Now, if thousands and thousands of people keep using the phrase "you're a teahouse", obviously giving it some sort of meaning (even as an absurdist joke), then that gets added to the dictionary. Btw, I have TWO PhD in foreign languages. Not that it means anything these days.