Newly coined words you might have not heard yet

6/28/2019

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Society Story: Newly coined words you might have not heard yet

At least 300 new words which describe modern social life and communication appeared this year. Let's take a look at them and decide whether we can use them in everyday life.

#1 JOMO

It is a feeling of contentment with one’s own pursuits and activities, without worrying over the possibility of missing out on what others may be doing.

#2 Textlationship

Do you have social media friends? Then you might have textlationships! It means a relationship with people who text each other frequently, but rarely if ever interact with each other in person.

#3 Colorism

It is differential treatment based on skin color, especially favoritism toward those with a lighter skin tone and mistreatment or exclusion of those with a darker skin tone, typically among those of the same racial group or ethnicity.

#4 Safe Space

Do you have a safe space? It is a place that provides a physically and emotionally safe environment for a person or group of people. People can freely express themselves there without fear of prejudice or negative judgment.

#5 Esprit de l’Escalier

It is translated as "the staircase wit". The phrase is used for the predicament of thinking of the perfect reply too late.

#6 Thirst Trap

This means a social media post, especially a selfie or other photo, intended to elicit sexual attention, appreciation of one’s attractiveness, or other positive feedback.

#7 Sneakerhead

Who is that? It is a person who collects and trades sneakers as a hobby, and who typically is knowledgeable about the history of sneakers!

#8 Virtue signaling

The sharing of one's point of view on a social or political issue, often on social media, in order to garner praise or acknowledgement of one’s righteousness from others who share that point of view, or to passively rebuke those who do not.

#9 Welp

It is an informal variant of "well", which is used to indicate disappointment, resignation, or acceptance at the beginning of an utterance.

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What are your thoughts on this subject?

69 Comments

Brendan Brannigan

Welp, I think I need to go to my safe space to get over my waste of time reading all these moronic new words that I’d never use except sarcastically.

debbieo

I'll not be using any of these new 'words'. They won't be allowed into my vocabulary reality.

David Colloby

An utter load of crap

Robert Snow

Safe place ?? When I was young , and that was eons ago my safe place was a place we called home . A place where your mom and dad and your siblings also lived . A place filled with love and adventure and home cooked meals and a fun weekend was a cookout with some of your friends and family members . That was my safe place and i’ll tell you I miss the hell out of that safe place !!

Carol Bruyere

very bizarre, then again this is not the world I grew up in

Yousuf Mirza

Some words are no more durable than passed wind!!

wmhp pns

Whelp has always meant a dog birthing puppies, as in "My dog GRACIE whelped 7 puppies.:

Craig Miller Sr

Waste of time

Tony Dottie Ciotta

More like ignorance, lack of education or knowledge of the English language, street language or to many people in California trying to write .We should pay more attention to what teachers re doing in our schools l

Donna R. O'Brien Moran

Well, I mean Welp, I do not like any of these words; they sound like words that Millennials would use. I am almost 70 yrs. old, so I will stick with my own words, thank you very much. “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Paul Eric Martin

as we British would say "what a load of codswallop" add that to your vocabulary

Eve

I won't use or remember these made-up words. I'm still having trouble with people using the word irregardless.

cmdvger

RainingStars, And related to "Yep."

Monty Mathias

Welp, I'm going to have to just go now and do some copious virtue signaling, and then plan some "Esprit de l'Escaliers" for future usage.

lmoores

Safe space and virtue signalling have been around for quite sometime. Whelp refers to a dog 🐕 giving birth.

David Roy

#10 Sighclone. My reaction to each new incarnation of the Quizzauthrs.com clone factory.

kittykay

Trish Stoffers, it's just another "fancy" word for RACIST.

Carol Foreman

Robert Snow, it sounds like the home I grew up in, I miss mine, too.

John Joseph

What an utter waste of time. New words are invented to cover new things happening, not just to please somebody’s ego.

werma

The world is changing and so is the way people speak.

Lupe Hernandez

I'd say the Kardashian girls all suffer from Thirst Trap.

john duckett

We may not like these new words or phrases but it is worth noting that an estimated 800 to 1,000 new words are added to English language dictionaries every year, so no point being a luddite as we inevitably end up using many of them. Think Blockchain and Cryptocurrency as recent examples.

bettye

Backward, turn backward, O time in thy flight I've thought of a comeback I needed last night

Margaret Gibson

Just like gay I know it to mean happy , whoever decided to use it for homosexuals and lesbians I’ll never now completely wrong use of a good word

Trish Stoffers

Colorism...really didn't like that one. I feel the world is more interesting with all the colors of people, nature, everything. A person is just a person, I love them all. Guess I really don't see color, just new opportunities to learn more about different ideas, ways of doing things, exploring their creativity, learning about them. I just meeting new people and their color has nothing to do with anything. We are all just PEOPLE, good, bad, indifferent, funny, wise, creative, artistic, so many talents throughout this great big world. Love meeting people, learning about them, sharing stories, ideas, and color is never entered into the mix of it.