Techokami

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Techokami @techokami10/5/2023, 11:18 PM

Weasel Hills Golf & C.C. (hole 19)@wildweasel

Adell @Adell10/5/2023, 6:58 AM

Can't sleep? What word was "born" in the same year as you?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler

LARP, queer studies, and mixed martial arts? That's a party I'd like to go to

#random thoughts #shitposting #shitchosting #shitpost #shitchost #dictionary #merriam webster

horse @horseonvhs10/5/2023, 5:13 PM

god bless

#horse text

jae @jkap10/5/2023, 5:16 PM

neat

invertigo hayfever @the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi10/5/2023, 5:22 PM

Me: hey wife, I was born the same year queso became a word, look
My wife: ay, dios mio

The Dude @LanceBoyle9410/5/2023, 9:46 PM

Busy year. lol

...I honestly thought "bootylicious" was a much later one, I guess cuz of the Destiny's Child song.

Weasel Hills Golf & C.C. (hole 19)@wildweasel10/5/2023, 10:21 PM

i was born the same year as "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder." if that doesn't make me some kind of herald of absurd mental edge cases i dunno what does.

[edit] oh and "FAQ"

Techokami @techokami10/5/2023, 11:18 PM

Same as weasel

We also got "GIF", "welp", "gank", "palmtop", "techno", "snark", "bork", and "emoticon"

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virtueisdead @virtueisdead10/5/2023, 3:25 PM

YO. im aromantic, and the word was first used in my birth year! god damn...

Jolon @wikispittingace10/5/2023, 5:25 PM

Same here!

pianotm @pianotm10/5/2023, 6:43 PM

Air Guitar, BIOS, Bitmap, dunk on, differently abled, graphics tablet (that long ago??? I thought that didn't exist until this century!!!), gridlock (really??? That's not older?), baby bump, chill out

A lot of terms that seem like they've been in use forever were born in 1980! And a lot of terms I thought were a lot younger, too! Air guitar, BIOS, Bitmap, and chill out are literally the only ones I listed here that don't surprise me. (A bunch of medical terms, too. Check out 1980, there're several pages of new words in it.)

Ecter B.@ecter10/7/2023, 5:09 AM

~~Computer mouse and tablets were invented pretty close to each other if i remember correctly.~~
Of course it wasn't correct. I kinda filed tablets and light pens in the same brain drawer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pen

Coach Z @coachz10/5/2023, 7:00 PM

some highlights:
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
gender nonconforming
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
wake and bake

lolololol it would be hilarious if i was an unfocused depressed enby pothead but i'm only some of those things

Sotenga @Sotenga10/6/2023, 7:44 PM

Proud of this one: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/janky

@samliebeskind10/7/2023, 3:50 PM

ooo this is so fun. thanks for sharing!

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ros @ros10/5/2023, 7:33 PM

some people have all the luck

Epiglottal Axolotl @epiglottal-axolotl10/6/2023, 3:43 AM

okay but the plural of fursona is fursonae

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Hunter Elenbaas @Hunter-JE10/5/2023, 7:53 PM

I'm the same age as bi-curious, moonwalk (in the dance sense), search engine, earbud, and horndog

Hunter Elenbaas @Hunter-JE10/5/2023, 7:58 PM

(Also don't exactly trust MW's sources because it says "Chilean sea bass" for my birth year but outside sources set the Patagonian toothfish's marketing glow-up 7 years before I was born)

@iangmorris10/5/2023, 9:15 PM

i'm as old as the term platform game

Thomas Winwood @ketsuban10/6/2023, 1:10 PM

There's always a lag between when a word starts climbing from obscurity into common usage and when dictionaries add it; M-W, being a dictionary, tracks the latter.

Hunter Elenbaas @Hunter-JE10/6/2023, 3:23 PM

But the date is supposed to be the first known appearance in print, not when it first appeared in the dictionary

jae @jkap10/6/2023, 3:31 PM

not gonna reverse it on MW but google books has the first occurrences in 1992 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chilean+sea+bass&year_start=1980&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

Hunter Elenbaas @Hunter-JE10/6/2023, 3:40 PM

Yeah further reading up and all the the references I could find to the 1977 date trace back to one article and it's in reference to a particular fish wholesaler using the term then, so may be something used internally or in-person in sales meetings back then and the fish only later really started actively being marketed under that name, which likely explains the delay in print attestation...

in reply to @the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi's post:

Upthorn @upthorn10/5/2023, 5:45 PM

Yeah, pretty much. Sriracha and tres leches cake both showed up for me...

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