Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoMacquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic facewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1195arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1189arrow-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 · 2 days agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMagnificentSteiner@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down7·2 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-up13arrow-down2·2 days agohttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/compounds
minus-squareEccentric@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·1 day agoFun fact: linguists don’t actually know what defines a “word”
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day 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-down3·1 day 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.