May 11 2009
Only a noob would try to predict millionth word
I read today on some Fox website that the English language is close to its millionth word. According to the official Global Language Monitor, a new English word is born every 98 minutes. At that pace, June 10 will be the big day. But what will that millionth word be? This article predicts the word could be “noob”. This statement confuses me for several reasons. “Noob” is just an abbreviation of the word “newbie”. So that would be like saying that Rachael Ray invented a new word because she now sells a dog food called Nutrish. Also, how do we know when something becomes an official word? Isn’t “noob” already a word if we’re using it? And what dumbass is predicting what that word will be? It’s supposed to be something that we don’t know about yet. Like a word I just made up now: solohydrofication. But the millionth word will not be that one, because it’s already been invented. Yes! Word number 999,555 has been taken care of by me. I will get around to defining it later.
