MizWeirdo
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Merriam-Webster has added the word Cromulent to the dictionary.
CROMULENT is now a perfectly cromulent word.
And here's a few more they've added:
Merriam-Webster is the GOAT.
Princess Lola tax.
She's still hanging in there, folks. 20 years old and going...well, not strong, exactly. Mostly kinda cranky and sleepy. But still going. ♥️
Twinklepot
This gave me quite the conniption
nezo
Your cat looks like my cat
norrinraddsboard
Now do bussy
flipj
May the Princess keep bussin' forever.
Commander5AM
That's very cromulent, also love your kitty she looks like such a bug :)
georgejimmydoodle
Maybe 20 years ago, I casually dropped cromulent into a conversation at work, and everybody bought it. Later one guy told me that he noticed, and for like a year I made it a point to use uncommonly used words when talking to him. He about lost it when I used the word schvitz.
theInfinitelyProlonged
JesusofMethlehem
munchabeexodus79
My love to Lola. My kitty is 18 and sometimes looks like a tiny kitten and other times like a grumpy granny
DrewtanggaurdiumLeviosa
I was the thousandth upvote. How cromulent.
georgedragonslayer
Unpossible.
Voygt
I am feeling very bussin' in my new jorts, thinking of going beast mode and becoming the GOAT, this is cromulent.
IOftenDeleteCommentsCauseISuckAtTyping
Isn't bussin derivative of busting as in busting a nut? Lmaoooo
billyrayvirus
I just want literally back.
Imalwaysready
#1 Future generations will look up the word, find it in the dictionary, and miss the nuanced genius of the joke.
delecti
The dictionary is a delayed description of language. "Cromulent" has been cromulent for a long time.
Wokerati
Frustrageous that it's come to this, but who am I to criticalize?
3lda002
Beast mode is a phrase not a word
behaardeman
It's a concept of sorts
Selk104
It also means something verrrrryyyyy different in Scotland
3lda002
Do tell! What does it mean in Scotland?
falsetruefalse
Ehh this is sus.
aShogunNamedMarcus
FR FR
dank69
there's no cap?
igglebotato
I thought "sus" = "capful" but what do I know, I was born last century.
NomDeImguerre
#3
GadenKerensky
That's just prime.
whitefoxkei
I love the way Primal transforms lol
BrockEffingSamson
Wow, he transforms from a guy to a very similar guy. Amazing. (Jokes aside, that's a cool gif.)
NomDeImguerre
What, you prefer this?
BrockEffingSamson
I prefer truck to guy, yes. I do not prefer Michael Bay shooting glorious footage of someone shaking around the contents of their junk drawer, no.
StillAKidAtHeart
Frindle
MrStealYourGiF
I would dip into the inkwell of adulation and pen you a note of praise, were it not like to release the feline from it's sack.
randomguy365
I missed the bus on cromulent. Where the fuck did that come from?
Meon3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcxsgZxqnEg&ab_channel=ThingsICantFindOtherwise It will embiggen you to watch this video
GloveFullaVaseline
It's not "inbiggens?" That's what I heard. But, I have hearing loss too...
MizWeirdo
The Simpsons
MrStealYourGiF
Now may thy knowledge be embiggened.
MoscoFonseca
I hope didn't brain my damage.
thelonepunman
I will still never forgive them for adding “figuratively” to the definitions for Literally.
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DanCodyComics
I dunno, I don't find arguing against him that repulsive an idea.
evilspock
https://ideas.ted.com/20-words-that-once-meant-something-very-different
karcain
Dictionaries dont set definitions, only record how people use words. They dont make people use them, they only add definitions after the word has been used a way a sufficient amount that people recognize it in that use
Blacktusk
It's fine, it's not like they literally wrote down "Literally: Figuratively." They're pretty clear that when "literally" isn't literally "literally" it's only figuratively "literally." It's literally impossible to confuse the two.
Snooj
It's been acceptable use for longer than any of us have been alive so you're going to have to be angry at David Cross for pretending it wasn't and move on. Do you never use exaggeration? Do you forsake all idiomatic hyperbole? It's a very populated hill to die on but a ridiculous hill nonetheless.
jimplaysgames10
Sorry I didn't understand what you said because the definition of every word was changed to a synonym for milk.
Snooj
I don't know what you're trying to communicate to me by typing "milk" twenty times in a row. Are you thirsty? Do you like cows?
NickRivieraMD
have we all only been alive for about 5 years, in your reckoning, then?
Snooj
David Cross' routine about it is older than 5 years. It's been in use as "figuratively" for at least a century. Not in a scientific journal but in creative composition. There are different rules for the styles of writing.
NickRivieraMD
ah shit, right you are, it seems: https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/famous-writers-used-literally-figuratively
Snooj
I attribute the famous David Cross bit but maybe Merriam Webster is also to blame. By adding it into the formal definition it seems they created an uproar. Bunch of pedants in my opinion. You didn't see anyone gathering arms when they handed lectern's definition over to podium because people couldn't figure out that you stand *on* a podium and *behind* a lectern. They just said fuck it, a lectern is a podium now.
woozle
DaveSamsonite
Long love Princess Lola
youreathing
Me fail English? That's unpossible!
MADFOX
Go banana!
HandoB4Javert
Covfefe.
jimplaysgames10
Hi Super Nintendo Chalmers!
Quessir
I love the expression on Chalmer's face when he hears it.
woozle
Bloodsense
That's where I saw the Leprechaun, he told me to burn things.
Alurkerforcedtologin
#1 I don't know why you're surprised, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
PerfectlyCromulentUsername
Indeed.
Joylove
Annoyingly MW accredited The Simpsons and not Blackadder for the first known usage of the https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cromulent
AxeDropper
Why? Why do we need another word that means precisely the same as an existing word? It really just litters the language.
manulofdoom
Longbowgun
You can't "litter" in a pile of dozens of languages. On the other hand - you could make a word that is completely irrelevant and put it into common usage.
I for one am gruntled about the addition of these words to the American lexicon.
mancopter
Would you call it double plus ungood?
zombiebatman
That’s not very cromulous of you to say
CivilizedUndead
Languages evolve. One of the words will go out of style, and the other will stay. A language that does not evolve inevitably dies.
Smayds
You could say that the words which fall out of style have lost their cromulence.
vowofloudness
I'm thinking maybe English is not the language for you.
retailmemedrone
Because language is always changing. We don’t talk like 10th century peasants because language is always changing.
Alurkerforcedtologin
Forsooth.
SindarElla
Ah, but 2 words with the same denotation can have different connotations. Ain't that fun?! :)
mouseasw
Like the difference between "forgive me father for I have sinned" and "sorry daddy, I've been naughty"
skipweasel
I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous, to discover it wasn't already in there.
WLAFadeaway
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
skipweasel
Operating, generating....
flawles
Well done, Bladder!
wigglemywammybar
Sausage. That is all.
jimplaysgames10
I've never experienced such perry combobulations.
warmhandsduke
dontfloatmygoat
Sausage? SAUSAGE? Ah damn your eyes.
briham86
GeorgeCostabaplaps
The black mamba
LCMcG
This reminds me of my first exposure to porn. I've always been a snake nerd and my favorite snake since I was a young child was the Black Mamba. Imagine being like 11, getting a rare opportunity to use the computer, looking up your favorite snake on Google and finding a website featuring some very genetically gifted black gentlemen and some incredibly enthusiastic white women having a damn good time on a great big boat.
LCMcG
Addendum: sometimes I wonder if that experience helped mold me into the open minded person I am, even moreso now as the older I get, the more problematic behaviors I notice in my family.
wylkyn
I'm obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.
skipweasel
Do you still have knees?
wylkyn
Did you know that having them removed isn't even covered by insurance? Outrageous!
exlurker42
I know some old grammar nazis that would hate this. I also know a linguist who DESPERATELY WISHES slang dictionaries were a thing a few thousand years ago.
thedarkcanuck
I thought it was ridiculous when they added LOL to the dictionary, but then I realized language is a living organism that is constantly evolving and changing. What's ridiculous is getting upset about that
Alurkerforcedtologin
Where in from, we don't listen to Nazis of any kind, so it's ok if they hate it.
Misteree8
I like oxfords method of deciding if a word is a word: if 2 ppl minimum are in a conversation and a word is used and both parties understand, its a word.
Snooj
Speaking as one, they're dumb. Language is about conveying meaning. If a new word pops up and conveys meaning, it's a word. That's why I don't get upset over "irregardeless" or "literally" used as "figuratively" although I'm always going to be a little mad about single letters requiring an apostrophe to become pluralized.
DougTheLlama
Do they also wish that, you know, regular dictionaries were a thing thousands of years ago?
eadanke
So what, the 𒄯𒊏 𒄷𒇧𒈝 doesn't exist? I know, that's hardly a normal dictionary, I just wanted to C/V cuniform
Baron29
Fuck em. The only languages that are static and unchanging, are dead languages.
Leevalleyoftheshadowofdeath
Often grammar nazis forget that there is no such thing as proper english, you're talking about a commoner language that was created by the informal amalgamation of other languages over time, and at times, pure fabrication. If intent is understood, then in my mind, it's proper english.
Ryebread91
So is it technically a pidgin language?
Tumescentpie
And a codification of language that is inconsistent. And that is charitable
Youhavinagiraffe
*ain't no such thing
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
Well, no. There is indeed "proper" English that follows rules of syntax and grammar. There is also vernacular language, there is slang, there are deliberate stylistic choices that contravene the rules ... and there's simply being too dumb to know the difference. If these elements catch on then they CAN become part of common spoken or written English, but that takes time and acceptance.
thotterpop
I understood some of those words
ELKronos
That's why "goated" bothers me. Saying someone is "the goat" is fine, but "Dude, you're goated" doesn't make any sense to me. It just sounds wrong.
Filanwizard
English hangs out in a dark corner near JFK airport and mugs other languages for spare grammar as they exit the international arrivals terminal.
Filanwizard
and in the far future if we make contact with alien life I am sure it will mug them at the spaceport too. Its my opinion that English as a language will never die as long as humans exist, However if you hopped in your delorean and went ahead +1000 you would probably barely understand it.
Someshithead241
I accept grammar nazi-ism when it's for that goal, to put forth intent properly. I mean language is made up and i could put them in any order or just make up random sounds because ah8t lagctlay mtnayt ly1 but you're not gonna understand the intent there. So we stick to different rules, so we know when we're intending to help uncle jack off a horse or help Uncle Jack off a horse.
skylardarkfox
Help Uncle Jack off a horse. Okay, so we're clear we're not horse breeders with the capitalization. But it's still not clear whether Uncle Jack intends to dismount. Perhaps the horse needs to be euthanized.
Someshithead241
It's only when you start spewing the "can't end a sentence with a proposition" or whatever bullshit that you start getting the phallic gestures from people.
Misteree8
Tell that to the French and the academy that votes what are french words and what isnt. Im with you though, language is descriptive not prescriptive
Fastjack2056
Making "cromulent" a real official word ruins the joke, tho
JimboTCB
Thing is, dictionaries are for the most part descriptive and not prescriptive, so they just reflect how people are using the language and do not attempt to adjudicate on what is "correct".
Longbowgun
Which I think is hilarious because in the U.S. Army we used to use the dictionary as a method for setting standards. "I.A.W. Merriam-Webster: a sarge is a bottom sucking fish. [Knife hand] Are you attempting to insult me private?"
BaridBel
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Longbowgun
We would use it as the standard for speech or writing.
But, it's not setting the standard: It mearly reflects the accepted norm.