Times are changing.... This is great recorded history! The American Dialect Society has overwhelmingly voted to name #blacklivesmatter its word of the year for 2014, marking the first time that the group has chosen a Twitter hashtag in its annual vote. “While #blacklivesmatter may not fit the traditional definition of a word, it demonstrates how powerfully a hashtag can convey a succinct social message,” Ben Zimmer, the chairman of the society’s new words committee, said in a statement. “Language scholars are paying attention to the innovative linguistic force of hashtags.”
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:00:22 +0000