WordLo

The WOTYfever is starting again. Are we ready for the new Word Of The Year competition? I'm afraid that the Word Of The Year 2013 will be "Twerk" but I definitely prefer "Selfie".

Update - 11 November 2013: Fail, deficit, deadlock, stalemate - 2013’s most used words on the web.

The Global Language Monitor claims ‘404’ - internet code for an online error - as the top word, ‘toxic politics’ the top phrase and Pope Francis the top name in its annual global survey of the English language.

The rankings are based on how many times words, phrases and names were used online throughout the 1.8bn people in the English-speaking world across the last 12 months.

To qualify, the words must have been used at least 25.000 times across all types of media.

19 November 2013 - And the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2013 is ‘selfie'! So, when I wrote this post my gut feeling gave me the right response! I'm a good Word detective..

4 December 2013: Merriam-Webster jus…

Read more: An Anthropological Linguistic Study of the Perry So-so

Source: babla on Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106791750066271573752/posts

The process in which a new word becomes part of the accepted vocabulary of a community is known as institutionalisation. The reason why neologisms have become embedded in every-day vocabulary so quickly is because they swiftly pass through all the stages of this process. First, they are used more and more frequently as they are spread via social media and various applications. Second, their meaning does not need a lot of definition since the pictures or applications are usually self-explanatory. Ultimately these words start appearing in various forms within common texts.

I edited this quick-and-dirty infographic (using “Paint”) to provide an easy to understand explanation of how neologisms are created. I hope you enjoy it! A better quality is available on Pinterest.


Infographic on neologims.TIF

So you just realised that in the same website you found "Login"and "Log in".  Do you hesitate (like me) when choosing between Sign In and Sign Up?

The same button was labeled “Submit” in a page and “Save” in another?  Did you find “New” and  “Create” when uploading new content to your blog?
If “module”, “plugin” or “extension” are used to refer to one same concept, they might raise terminology inconsistencies in UX (User Experience).

Keep It Short and Sweet

The website has to speak the same language as its audience. Technical people tend to think terms like “stack overflow” and “fatal exception” make perfect sense. There should be more attention on how users think about what those buttons and words mean to them.
How to avoid terminology inconsistencies in websites? Dear developer, put yourself in the shoes of the person who is accessing the website. You have to be able to use a terminology that can be undestood by the users.Check always that your website adopts the techn…

 Arranging a rough time or place to meet, then sorting out details on the fly via mobile phone.




Source: 
Viewpoint: Why do tech neologisms make people angry?

What happens when a computer automatically "corrects" your spelling into something wrong or incomprehensible.

It's a sort of older cousin of the "Damn You, Autocorrect" error that infects even professionally edited text. 

Everybody experiences that stomach-dropping moment when you realise what you sent
wasn’t what you intended to send, and there are no takebacks. It was named by workers for the European Union who noticed that the word "cooperation" often showed up in finished documents as "Cupertino," the name of the California city in which Apple has its headquarters. 

Sources: Viewpoint: Why do tech neologisms make people angry?The Cupertino Effect: 11 Spell Check Errors that Made it to Press