…UNFRIEND
Hunh!!??
Oh, I get it; it’s a verb. Dumping somebody on Facebook…unfriend.
That’s pretty stupid. But, according to the Oxford University Press, unfriend is the one word that “best reflects the mood of the year”.
I found the story at MyWay…check this out…
Oxford lexicographer Christine Lindberg says unfriend has “real lex appeal.”
uh…ok…so, I found this at Wiki…
* Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language, developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries, the needs for information by users in specific types of situation, and how users may best access the data incorporated in printed and electronic dictionaries. This is sometimes referred to as ‘metalexicography’.
Woah! Semantic, syntagmatic, paradigmatic and metalexicography?
Your job description includes all of that and you “unfriend” is hip?
Go figure.
BTW, runners up included “netbook” and “sexting”.
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