What is up with the new dictionary's? They are adding a bunch of new words like bootylicius, badda bing badda boom. The list goes on and on. The last I new these were slang not words WTF? When are American's going to start speaking American again?

as soon as we start whining about a ten commandments statue in a building in Alalbama and get back to whats inportant.

Where have you seen that? I mean actually seen it in person and not just read about it in some mass forward email you got.

It was reported by either CNN or CBS news online. I read the article about it. I dont mean to say that just because they reported it that it is neccessarily true.

Trust me, I have read numerous news stories about this. It is most assuredly true. I hope I don't need to post a link to Morons.org again...

yes, please do not post a link to that idiotic site ever again, please!!! I will agree with everything you say, just dont post that link ever again!

All right! Then lets see here...you must now agree with this simple statement: George W. Bush is a horrible president and should be impeached and tried on the charge of War Crimes.

:D

ya, whatever, just dont link us to that crappy site anymore! you could use that to get to get Bin ladens flunkies to turn him over.

Yer boy klinton was much worse than Dubya will ever be. Had bubba been POTUS on 9/11, the US would still be negotiating with the taliban & their camels. bubba should have been impeached and placed in prison when we had the chance. Now the best we can do is to do everything humanly possible from keeping his old lady boxed up as the jr senator from NY & out of the White House.

Originally posted by HaVoK
It was reported by either CNN or CBS news online. I read the article about it. I dont mean to say that just because they reported it that it is neccessarily true.

Huh, I'll be damned. It sounded like one of those emails you get from people that like to get riled up about things. I'm with everyone else, that's retarded.

Hutz is happy as long as any referance to god or religion is taken out of the dictionary, in case a poor innocent child might open it up in seacrch of gay gangbang and be defiled by the sight of the ten commandments definition.

I think hi was once slang, so was poor, and gay, and happy, and dictionary probably was too. Slang is what keeps a language alive. Although "fizzle my nizzle" looks to be more of a downward slope back to caveman times. I'm against most of this shit slang to become words in the dictionary, but some adds progress... not to mention slang changes every 5 minutes.

You know, there is a book out there called “Dictionary of American Slang.” The purpose of this book is to keep slang words separate from real words.

word (wûrd)
n.

1. A sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes.

These are words. Your fears of black culture has transcended the boundaries of legitimacy. That being said, take uh peep at dis here madness thin' I found, Ya' dig?

Help for the hopeless (http://www.joel.net/EBONICS/translator.asp)

Originally posted by aVaTaR
word (wûrd)
n.

These are words. Your fears of black culture has transcended the boundaries of legitimacy. Yeah. Every black person i know runs around saying, "budda bing". Scary culture there. :rolleyes:

All words were created at some point.

Who knows, maybe 20 years down the road, the news reporter on BBC will be giving you the "411", while you listen to your grandkids "diss" each other for being up in the "bling bling"... and you won't even blink twice.

Webster on the other hand will probably be rolling in his grave.

Yeah. Every black person i know runs around saying, "budda bing". Scary culture there.

Hmmm... I get this strange feeling that it's not the phrases like this that make people worry the most. Maybe I'm crazy, but I think it's the bootylicious and other "ebonics" words that make most people angry about it.

I don't care who uses what words, but I am upset when slang gets in the dic. Oh well life goes on, maybe in the year 2525 we can all talk like babys. Goo goo gaw gaw

If slang is to be used in literature, assuming the politically correct mathens don't gain total control, it has to be in a dictionary. The words have to have some type of definition, a pronunciation, and a spelling. Who ever thought that the word "nuke" would actually come to describe a microwave oven, what it does, and what you're going to do with that bag of popcorn you're holding?

Originally posted by aVaTaR
Hmmm... I get this strange feeling that it's not the phrases like this that make people worry the most. Maybe I'm crazy, but I think it's the bootylicious and other "ebonics" words that make most people angry about it. Oh really? What other "ebonics" words would that be? I read the article and the only one i remember as having "ebonics" origins was the word bootylicious. Maybe you read another article that showed more words. Did you? Or are you making this out to be something it really isnt?

Rather than arguing about the meaning of "word" or "slang", maybe we should just wonder : what is the use of a dictionary ?
It is not supposed to be the listt of correct words, just the list of all the words one can find and wonder about. This is precisely why slang should be in dictionaries.
As a foreigner, whenever I read a text (song or anything) with slang, I am very happy to find it in a dictionary so I can understand the meaning of the sentence.

We have an "official" list of "correct french words" in my country - it is the Dictionary of the French Academy. Nobody uses it. But the most succesful commercial dictionaries all include slang (which leads to same kind of polemic than here).