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Merriam-Webster Word of the Year for 2024 It is “polarization,” which he defines as “the division into two sharply opposing sides.” (This word beats 'brain rot', but one wonders if that occurred among dictionary staff.)
In fact, it's been the word of the year since at least 2016, when President-elect Trump won for the first time and the left went crazy.
The left-wing staff in dictionary land couldn't handle Trump and started playing word games almost immediately after he won. Even NPR noticed In 2017, “Merriam-Webster Dictionary trolled Trump on Twitter for months.”
You might think that the left would tire of such empty words, but that is not the case. (Istock)
The company's wordplay is part of a larger leftist strategy to either make up new words or redefine existing terms to make them fit the liberal narrative. We've seen repeated examples in the past several years – “birth person”, “Latinx”, and most recently “woman”.
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Scripps National Spelling Bee, D-Awkward, It has released a list of third grade words for its centenary competition. The word “womyn” is included as an acceptable alternative spelling for the actual word, women. Of course, according to a Scripps spokesperson, “All words used in the Scripps National Spelling Bee have been pulled from our official dictionary, the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.”
Consider me shocked. (Adjective: struck by a sudden mental or emotional disturbance.) But this is really just propaganda. Even the Left Urban Dictionary describes “womyn” as “a term used by feminists who feel that the presence of the word 'man' in the word 'woman' makes women a subgroup of men.” (Scripps also approved the word “bazaar” as a substitute for bazaar, which is quite strange.)
Even more controversial than this perception is the attempt to remove mothers from our language, to appease trans extremists. In July 2022, the NEA, the troubled teachers' union who hate America, considered changing the language. They wanted it Get rid of the word “mother” And replace it with “birth parent”. “Father” was supposed to change to “unborn parent.” This is because the actual parents – mothers and fathers alike – do not like what the NEA wants to do with their children.
That plan failed. Even the NEA must have realized how crazy it was.
After one month, AP Stylebook decided that was it “Phrases like ‘pregnant women’ or ‘people seeking abortions’ are acceptable when you want to include people who have those experiences but do not identify as women.”
This and all other kinds of weirdness have been embraced by so-called science. Everything from “breastfeeding” instead of breastfeeding to urging employees to “avoid unnecessary gender language” is available on the NIH website. Employees should “use all or all instead of men, women, and guests or special persons instead of ladies and gentlemen.” The National Institutes of Health is trying to put these words into someone else's mouth and offers instructions on its site with a prominent link to the AP Stylebook.
This nonsense has been championed or defended by the liberal media. And still do. “The issue of saying ‘pregnant’ and other gender-inclusive terms,” CNN wrote. The overarching gender phrase mentioned in the story was “penis owners.” (You have to write your own jokes for this joke. I wrote a few and deleted them because I like to work.) The network published that article in May 2024.
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You might think that the left would tire of such empty words, but that is not the case. Look at the silly Latin word. Liberals created it because they hated that the Spanish language had masculine and feminine words, so they wanted a gender-neutral term for people of Spanish or Latin American descent. But despite years of efforts, the Pew Research Center reported in September that “4% of Latino adults say they have used Latin to describe themselves, little changed from the 3% who said the same in 2019.”
Instead of giving up, leftists are simply trying out a new pseudo-term. In April, Axios wrote that “Latin is the new Latin.” That's like saying Vice President Kamala Harris He's the new Michael Dukakis. It's not particularly complimentary for either side of the comparison.
“Latinism,” the article claimed, “a gender-neutral way to describe or refer to people of Latino descent, is increasingly popular on campuses, museums, and among researchers and the media.”
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And none of those groups you mentioned were actually Hispanic or Latino. Every one of them is just an elite left-handed ivory tower. So who do they cite as an expert? Monica Trasandes, “Director of Spanish Language Media and Representation at GLAAD” – Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
Talk about not being able to read a room, an election, or even a dictionary.
Ironically, the same article was published in the newspaper Axios Latino. Not Axios Latino or Latinx.
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Pushing the left to use bad words makes me think about how good a word can describe Susie Dent. She calls herself “that woman in the dictionary corner” and regularly posts obscure terms from centuries past. One of her words that August day was “Podsnappian” (from Charles Dickens“Narrow-minded, self-congratulatory, convinced that everyone else should see things the way you do.”
This feels like the last word to me. It aptly describes the grammar idiots on the left.
