Have you seen the new entries to the Online Oxford English Dictionary? They are only online and not in the OED per se. I enter them here because to me they are slang and largely geek slang from electronics. Most are not in most Agora denizens vocabulary, but I bet some will creep in. As I mentioned elsewhere, I.ve started to use "dongle."
http://qz.com/119200/oxford-dictionary- ... f=dbeurope
New slang words
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Re: New slang words
On theatlantic.com there is an article about old new words, and what became of some of them.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a ... ow/279145/
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a ... ow/279145/
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Re: New slang words
Nice catch. But I could argue with several of them, since app to me is not synonymous with applet. App refers to the program, whereas applet refers to the icon to call up the program. The latter comes from Apple, while app is short for application. Or so I have used it.
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Re: New slang words
As far as I can tell, Apple has nothing to do with applet. Applet is short for, and a diminutive of, application, and app is short for applet.
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Re: New slang words
My friend's name was Al but they called him Aloysius for short.
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Re: New slang words
Here's a piece on how words get into and out of the dictionary. Not in-depth, but worth reading:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... ad/309426/
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... ad/309426/
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