[Misc] "Sumfin", "whatevs" and "simples" added to Oxford English Dictionary

[GT49er]

Agreed.

Sumfin is literally just a word being misspelled. It doesn't mean anything different, does it?

If not, we then need to add all misspellings ever. Daft.

Yes, you're right - it's not a new word at all. I'm not even sure it's a misspelling either - it's just a phonetic spelling of a mis-pronunciation of a word, in this 'something' (or 'summat' in some circles).

 

[Peteinblack]

Perhaps the OED should add a new definition for 'like' - "stupid verbal punctuation, inserted about 6 times in every sentence, by ditzy teenage girls and young women, in a misguided attempt to sound 'cool' or 'sexy'. Often combined with 'vocal fry'. See also: bimbo, airhead, Kardashian-follower, totesamazeballs, OMG, You-OK-Hun?-PM-me".

 

[GT49er]

Perhaps the OED should add a new definition for 'like' - "stupid verbal punctuation, inserted about 6 times in every sentence, by ditzy teenage girls and young women, in a misguided attempt to sound 'cool' or 'sexy'. Often combined with 'vocal fry'. See also: bimbo, airhead, Kardashian-follower, totesamazeballs, OMG, You-OK-Hun?-PM-me".

Top ranting!

 

[Bakero]

Its difficult to find any bastions of ' Oxford English ' anymore. There are small pockets here and there, probably best spoken by those north of Edinburgh or by educated ' sub-continentals. The public school English has got lazy but is still infinitely acceptable to the unintelligible garbage that has morphed from bastardized cockney, that young men started speaking around the Home Counties, in the 60's and 70's, to this fashionable shite, now doing the rounds. It involves large elements of black culture mixed in with the immature and mentally challenged, who don't know any better and think it gives them some sort of street cred.
We need the language police out on the streets, to start getting everyone to laugh at anyone using words like this. Just endless hysterical laughter at them. Doubled over, side-splitting roars of laughter. We cannot let the simpletons hijack our language anymore. It should be left to the rest of us to speak our beautiful tongue in the way it was intended.
Are these words going to be taught in schools? If not, they should be drummed out of our language

Was this post supposed to be an example of the unintelligible garbage you're railing against or is it just a happy coincidence?

 

[GT49er]

Dumbing down the English language...... what are we coming to. .?

Ask the Plain English Campaign - they've been trying to do away with big words for 40 years!

 

[GT49er]

Well done everybody.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-50052420

I do like 'Jafaican, n. and adj.: A non-Jamaican person who adopts or identifies with aspects of Jamaican culture, esp. in a way regarded as contrived or inauthentic' from that list! So accurate, so descriptive - and so many people you can wind up (justifiably!) by referring to them as Jafaican!

Int that right, blud?

 

[dazzer6666]

Its difficult to find any bastions of ' Oxford English ' anymore. There are small pockets here and there, probably best spoken by those north of Edinburgh or by educated ' sub-continentals. The public school English has got lazy but is still infinitely acceptable to the unintelligible garbage that has morphed from bastardized cockney, that young men started speaking around the Home Counties, in the 60's and 70's, to this fashionable shite, now doing the rounds. It involves large elements of black culture mixed in with the immature and mentally challenged, who don't know any better and think it gives them some sort of street cred.
We need the language police out on the streets, to start getting everyone to laugh at anyone using words like this. Just endless hysterical laughter at them. Doubled over, side-splitting roars of laughter. We cannot let the simpletons hijack our language anymore. It should be left to the rest of us to speak our beautiful tongue in the way it was intended.
Are these words going to be taught in schools? If not, they should be drummed out of our language

You need to work on your punctuation, it’s all over the place [emoji23][emoji23]

 

[Bakero]

You need to work on your punctuation, it’s all over the place [emoji23][emoji23]

Not to mention the questionable word choice and use of 'that' rather than 'which' in a non-defining relative clause. It's a bloody outrage.

 

[GT49er]

Not to mention the questionable word choice and use of 'that' rather than 'which' in a non-defining relative clause. It's a bloody outrage.

There are probably still rules about this in old use of English text books, but through common usage are no longer relevant. There are certainly circumstances in which they are not interchangeable, but many more in which they are.
It's one of those rules now generally considered archaic, such as the one which says don't split infinitives. Everybody does now, and it actually looks and sounds right.

 

[Sirnormangall]

Sumfin: Is it April ****ing fools day? What the actual ****? That's just a mispronunciation by ****ing morons.

Of course it’s a mispronunciation. Everyone knows it ends with a “k”

 

[Triggaaar]

Of course it’s a mispronunciation. Everyone knows it ends with a “k”

Dey no nuffink

 

[Bakero]

There are probably still rules about this in old use of English text books, but through common usage are no longer relevant. There are certainly circumstances in which they are not interchangeable, but many more in which they are.
It's one of those rules now generally considered archaic, such as the one which says don't split infinitives. Everybody does now, and it actually looks and sounds right.

I beg to differ, presuming you're referring to the relative clause thing. Using that in a non-defining clause is weird and doesn't sound right at all.

 

[father_and_son]

Simples: Shit word, but if people use it, fair enough.

Whatevs: Really? It's just an abbreviation, why does it need to be in the dictionary?

Chillax: I think that should be in the dictionary, makes sense.

Sumfin: Is it April ****ing fools day? What the actual ****? That's just a mispronunciation by ****ing morons.

Reasonable view... Except whatevs would be a contraction rather than an abbreviation wouldn't it?

 

[Triggaaar]

Reasonable view... Except whatevs would be a contraction rather than an abbreviation wouldn't it?

I think a contraction is a type of abbreviation. So I think it's both.

 

[GT49er]

I beg to differ, presuming you're referring to the relative clause thing. Using that in a non-defining clause is weird and doesn't sound right at all.

Example?

 

[Bakero]

Example?

Defining clause: These are the regions that/which will be hit by the storm. (that or which can be used here)

Non-defining: The book, which is based on a true store, is in stores from Friday. (you wouldn't use that here)

For some real life examples, look at this article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...sack-fonseca-sues-netflix-over-the-laundromat It contains 6 ND clauses using which. Try replacing any of them with that.