Why the skibidi are you adding skibidi to the Cambridge Dictionary? We think it has "staying power", answer word boffins

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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They did it so articles like this would be written about them. Easy advertising

  Like the time “bootylicious” was added. A word everyone stopped using a year later

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  • Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think Cambridge need to be more conservative here. Wait ten years and see.

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    • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think it’s skibidi bootylicious of them

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  • lath@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Please avoid commenting in everyone's stead.

    Bootylicious is still being used, sporadically.

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• djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t really care too much about which slang words we decide to carry forward. I’ve long since adopted rizz and -ussy, and like delulu being added here.

  I am a little bothered by the fact skibidi doesn’t have a definition. I feel like words should have a meaning if they want to be added to our official lexicon. It seems like skibidi is just a sound children enjoy making.

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  • seralth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Delulu is just a spin on another word, rizz is the same

    Random affixes are common enough that it’s normal no matter how weird any given one is

    But skibidi is literally a filler nonsense word. It’s like if we just put random scatman words and beatboxing noises into the dictionary. It’s babble, which would mean it has a place in the dictionary as an example of babble or gibberish.

    But it doesn’t actually /mean/ anything by it self. So it’s just weird to see it getting added as a “word”.

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• Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is that gm_BigCity?

  I’m still blown away how a shitty GMod meme turned into a potential movie franchise and a toy line, now, about 20 years after the hype of Half-Life/GMod had died down.

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