English continues to grow the 2011 Culturonomics paper suggested a rate of 8, 500 new words a year.
"Some of the new words this year provide colorful images, " said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster editor-at-large.
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If that happens, Foreign Affairs Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos says he will sing the new words with passion.
Like Wikipedia it is for users to suggest tweaks and add new words.
The scientists created an experiment that mimicked how young children learn new words.
Improve your vocabulary and integrate new words and phrases as you become more interesting and even exciting to listen to.
"The new words included in the latest edition reflects the sometimes contradictory preoccupations of our time, " said project manager Angus Stevenson.
It's a malevolence so ancient there are no new words for it, and so the old ones will have to do.
The result could be that "we end up seeing the system slowing down while everybody works out what the new words mean".
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Partly because the language is already so rich, the "marginal utility" of new words is declining: Existing things are already well described.
Encarta's other selling points: lots of new words and phrases, like gonk (to lie, especially in an on-line conversation) and yadda yadda yadda.
The common proxy for this extra difficulty is the number of new words added to the code since the survey was taken (about 500, 000).
The change will mean lots of new words will appear to the right of the dot where people usually expect to see .com, or .net.
An evolution of the Hotwords technology announced in September, Swype Living Language uses crowdsourcing to analyze new words and phrases in real-time, continuously updating our language dictionaries.
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Before Zynga acquired the game, OMGPOP also added the ability for the company to add new words to the game on-the-fly, allowing it to add terms related to pop culture and news events.
This led them to a related finding: The words that manage to be born now become more popular than new words used to get, possibly because they describe something genuinely new (think "iPod, " "Internet, " "Twitter").
The authors even identified a universal "tipping point" in the life cycle of new words: Roughly 30 to 50 years after their birth, they either enter the long-term lexicon or tumble off a cliff into disuse.
There are at least 13 commissions for inventing new French words or phrases.
" Already, these social bots are being used on an experimental basis to teach various skills to preschool children, "including the names of colors, new vocabulary words and simple songs.
Now there are new code words to decipher.
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Like buying a new car, in other words, getting a new hip can be delayed.
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As this NYT piece explains, Facebook has forced new definitions of words such as like and friend to enter our communal dictionary.
To early Europeans, America seemed a world truly new, and their words give voice to the strangeness and wonder of discovery.
Tuvan, an indigenous tongue spoken by nomadic peoples in Siberia and Mongolia, even has an iPhone app to teach the pronunciation of words to new students.
In other words, new threats are being developed using very sophisticated peer-to-peer programming tools that are targeting not just a certain class of customer or data, but a particular individual (say, a four-star general at the Pentagon) or a specific piece of data (such as the communication algorithms of a particular weapons system).
Adjacent to the white border at the left of the stamp is the coastline of North America, with the words "New York" jutting out into the Atlantic, and adjacent to the border at the right the coastlines of Ireland, Great Britain, and France, with the word "Paris" at the end of a dotted arc that charts the flight path between the two cities.
The new bases mean that there would be 216 possible codons in other words, 152 entirely new codons up for grabs.
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Bourdain, 53--now an author, travel host, lecturer and comedian--found fame through sharp words, not new recipes.
Fighting words from the new CEO of Victoria's Secret Direct the mail-order side of Victoria's Secret.
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