Tag: dictionaries
- 31st August 2009
Twitter slang in dictionary. FFS, who cares?
The silly season must very nearly be over if we’re already talking about what words have made the Collins English Dictionary. This year’s tedious publicity stunt has worked by drawing attention to young people’s slang, some of which — wait for it — is used on Twitter. ‘Noob’ and ‘meh’ and ‘mwah’ and ‘OMG’ and [...]
- 10th August 2009
Apple shouldn’t take leaves from anyone’s books
One of the most disgraceful stories I’ve read over the last week is the saga of how Apple banned a dictionary from its online Apps Store — because it contained rude words. The dictionary in question, Ninjawords, was only made available to iPhone and iPod Touch customers when some of the offending vocabulary was removed. [...]
