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2024's words of the year suggest that a 'supermajority' of online 'brats' may be experiencing 'brain rot.'
This gem of a poem by Emily Dickinson is a good place to start. Reading it draws attention to the nature of language and the use-it-or-lose-it principle that tends to shape a word's lifespan.
A word is dead, when it is said Some say – I say it just begins to live That day This gem of a poem by Emily Dickinson is a good place to start. Reading it draws attention to the nature of language and the use-it-or-lose-it principle that tends to shape a word's lifespan.
Some words—"lonely" and "critic," for example—were coined by William Shakespeare more than 400 years ago. Neither shows any sign of wear. Some words are like brakes on a car: the more you use them, the sooner they wear out. Remember how awesome "groovy" once was?
According to the Global Language Monitor, the English lexicon…
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