Macquarie's 2024 WOTY is "enshittification"

Language Log 2024-11-26

Summary:

The Macquarie Dictionary's Word of the Year was announced yesterday, and it's enshittification. Macquarie is catching up here, since enshittification was the American Dialect Society's WOTY in 2023. The Macquarie announcement gives us a gloss ("the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially […]

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Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

11/26/2024, 10:44

Date published:

11/26/2024, 06:56