#wotyposting

• For informal word of the year, multiple people have gone up to the mic announcing themself as “team rawdog”

• One respected professor threw his support behind “W”, saying (I’m paraphrasing) “double the u, double the pleasure”

A year has passed, language change has occurred, and it is once again time for a vote. Tonight hundreds of linguists will have to decide if they are the brave soldier who will step up to the mic and explain to their colleagues what gooning means.

See my liveblogs for previous years here and here

• Someone spoke in favor of “reheat nachos” for Creative Word of the Year, providing the example sentence “Lady Gaga reheated Beyoncé’s nachos and they were burnt”

• Someone spoke in favor of “Amphifa”, which is a portmanteau of Amphibians and Antifa, in solidarity with “both pacific northwesterners and frogs”

• I don’t have anything interesting to say on this but what the fuck is a “Fridge Cigarette”?

• REHEATED NACHOS WINS MOST CREATIVE WORD OF THE YEAR

• Surprising nobody, 6-7 has been nominated for Informal Word of the Year

• Someone has given an impassioned speech of “x, I fear” for Informal Word of the Year. It didn’t sway opinion, I fear.

• The next person to speak, gave the disclaimer that they would be “reheating the nachos” of the previous speaker.

• Multiple people have spoken in favor of 6-7, highlighting its “linguistic uniqueness”, its “gestural component”, and the fact that it transcends language.

• A CHILD has come to the mic to argue AGAINST 6-7, to deafening applause. “I could say 1-2. Would that become popular too?”

• Someone else has spoken against 6-7, arguing that it didn’t fit the informal category due to its “limited semantic content and largely pragmatic usages”

• The twin of the first child has come to the mic, arguing in FAVOR of 6-7, saying “the adults have their words, let us have ours!” Again, deafening applause

2) is rawdogging being used the way it's been used for a couple of decades (brain so tired, I mean like, to describe something rough and almost casually reckless), and it got word of the year cuz it was used so much? Or is there a new understanding of the word?

Yea!!!

Hello! I do intend to cover this year’s vote (pending logistics), but I don’t think there’s any official livestream. I was physically present for the votes I liveblogged.