I read Carol Roachs article about Oxford Dictionary adding slang words to their collection. A few decades back, the British Judges sentencing Indian Patriots Bhagat Singh and others to death for rioting against British Administration passed Judgement. Now it is Judgment without the e. Who made this decision, and when? Even the British now use Judgment without e but people like me use the word still with e which is our right and privilege which nobody can question. We are waiting for the time when everything reverts to something rigid and fixed. Why abandon our style of using words for a flash flood and revert after the flood has passed? Slang words will always be present in a language but why should they be included in dictionaries in a haste before they too are replaced with other slang words? What words are used in a dictionary should be there, being used through centuries or at least decades. That has been the principle being followed hitherto. If the Oxford Dictionary does this, this thing itself is becoming a great slang, unworthy of its long-standing reputation. It is better to leave slang words alone for a few decades until they are fully evolved into something colloquially decent and respected. Tomorrow, if what George Orwell predicted happens and there is a reduction of words, will the Oxford Dictionary change very very bad to double plus un-good? Brutus- u 2.....? [In reply to Carol Roachs article New Words In The Oxford Dictionary published in Bubblews]
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:54:14 +0000
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