Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoMacquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic facewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up1184arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1178arrow-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 · 18 hours agomessage-square16linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMagnificentSteiner@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down5·16 hours agoThat is 2 words (or 3 depending how you count the abbreviation). You’d think a dictionary could get that right.
minus-squarehelpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·4 hours agoNeither of those are 1 word. At least hyphen them to pretend they’re one word.
minus-squareEccentric@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·5 hours agoFun fact: linguists don’t actually know what defines a “word”
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·16 hours agohttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/compounds
That is 2 words (or 3 depending how you count the abbreviation). You’d think a dictionary could get that right.
Neither of those are 1 word. At least hyphen them to pretend they’re one word.
Fun fact: linguists don’t actually know what defines a “word”
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/compounds