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Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 12 points 11 months ago (4 children)

That is 2 words (or 3 depending how you count the abbreviation). You'd think a dictionary could get that right.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Fun fact: linguists don't actually know what defines a "word"

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Why is this downvoted, it's actually a real thing

    Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear

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