Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year Is… Brain Rot https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/arts/brain-rot-oxford-word.html excerpt: It’s not just you. Oxford University Press, the publisher of the august Oxford English Dictionary, is also going a bit fuzzy between the ears. After digging through its enormous database, it has chosen “brain rot” — specifically, the kind brought on by digital overload — as its 2024 Word of the Year. It’s been quite a journey for “brain rot,” which triumphed over a shortlist of contenders including “lore,” “demure,” “romantasy,” “dynamic pricing” and “slop.” According to Oxford, its earliest known appearance was in 1854, in “Walden,” Henry David Thoreau’s classic account of moving alone to a cabin in the woods. “While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot,” Thoreau lamented, “will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?” The answer, apparently, is no. These days, according to Oxford, it’s often invoked by young people on social media to describe the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state,” particularly stemming from overconsumption of trivial online content. That usage surged by about 230 percent over the past year. Casper Grathwohl, the president of Oxford Languages, the company’s dictionary division, said the term’s rise reflects the breakneck speed of social media-driven language change. “With ‘brain rot,’” he said, “it’s a phenomenon of young people skewering language trends on TikTok, almost exactly after they themselves have churned out that language.” more at the link
Hey guys, I thought of something that can really help this BBS out. Let's all get super mad about everything and call each other names and insult each other's intelligence. We should get especially angry if it's about something we would have never known about if not for helpful social media telling us to be angry about the ISSUE. Bonus points if we can mock female posters on the boards. It's going to be a blast!
@basso @AroundTheWorld @Os Trigonum The d&d needs a minister of fat people like that did in San Francisco
What? My post was something brand new that has never been done before in the D&D. We never see anything like what I described at all.
