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Oxford Dictionaries adds ‘Deets’, ’4G’ and ‘First World Problems’

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Epic fail Nov 23, 2012

How cringeworthy is it when once august institutions stoop so low? If these are examples of Zeitgeist, they can count me out.
 
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
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Digital words Nov 26, 2012

Digital technology makes new words appear quickly, both in voice and in alphabet. In phone answering system, I listen to new and weird accents/wordings every time the services of new enterprises come into action. Electronic dictionary of every language can be busy to update for the new words.

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