Oxford Dictionary adds 18 LGBT words in 2022 including 'brotherboy, sistergirl, teahouse, pangender, multisexual, TERF.' A brotherboy is a person registered as female at birth who identifies with a masculine gender expression typically through behaviors culturally associated with masculinity.

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

So?

The Oxford English dictionary isn’t like the Académie Française, it doesn’t lay down the law regarding the language (no English dictionary does that) it merely reports usage and meaning.

They have lexicographers who scour English language sources and pick out words that are actually being used and record them and their meanings. A very useful function.

I’m glad that English isn’t controlled like French is by the Académie Française, their authoritarian diktats always struck me as a bitch move by people scared that their fee-fees will be hurt by someone saying computer instead of ordinateur.

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Quebec's far worse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois_de_la_langue_fran%C3%A7aise

(sorry, Québec)

[–]ClassroomPast6178 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Doesn’t surprise me, everything I’ve heard about the Québécois is that they have enough chips on their shoulders to keep them in poutine for eternity.

Spain has one too, Real Academia Española and I have heard from Spanish friends (one an actual Spanish Spanish Language teacher) that they’re just as mental as France’s Académie Française.

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

funny thing is non-Quebec French Canadians have the same reputation as the rest of Canadians (Minnesota Nice, but even stronger): the chest-thumping is confined to one province NATION; it was literally so bad Quebecois had to be deployed to Afghanistan to make them realize there were more oppressed places on Earth than federally-subsidized far-east Canada (also a separatist tried to kill the PM but he or his wife stood ready with a big stone sculpture of a loon, which is the most Canadian sentence I've ever typed)

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

Earlier this year a community I am part of had to deal with people from Quebec, two streamers I follow since their YouTube days said they had to move out of the province because people would not stop harassing his wife for speaking English on their lawn and in reply they tried getting our subreddit shut down for racism, is Quebec even real

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

the separatists then blamed Jews and even told Mohawk and Cree leaders they were free to leave if they didn't like what they had planned for the new republic