Extra Kwekstra

they/them. Linguist • Computer Scientist • Aspiring Shitposter

[kwekstra]

Friends! Enemies! Fans of my WOTY post! I’m starting a new discord for word nerds and linguists of all backgrounds!

Join here: https://discord.gg/nq5Dj7rHyu

[kwekstra]

68 is, on average, the funniest number

[maezanilla]

Our most beloved Reverend Daughter 💀

[kwekstra]

Not to be a conspiracy theorist or play into stereotypes or anything but I do feel like every time a crash test dummy is behind the wheel something terrible happens to the car

[kwekstra]

Word of the Year liveblog: Year 3

A year has passed, language change has occurred, and it is once again time for a vote. Tonight hundreds of linguists will have to decide if they are the brave soldier who will step up to the mic and explain to their colleagues what gooning means.

See my liveblogs for previous years here and here

• Someone spoke in favor of “reheat nachos” for Creative Word of the Year, providing the example sentence “Lady Gaga reheated Beyoncé’s nachos and they were burnt”

• Someone spoke in favor of “Amphifa”, which is a portmanteau of Amphibians and Antifa, in solidarity with “both pacific northwesterners and frogs”

• I don’t have anything interesting to say on this but what the fuck is a “Fridge Cigarette”?

• REHEATED NACHOS WINS MOST CREATIVE WORD OF THE YEAR

• Surprising nobody, 6-7 has been nominated for Informal Word of the Year

• Someone has given an impassioned speech of “x, I fear” for Informal Word of the Year. It didn’t sway opinion, I fear.

• The next person to speak, gave the disclaimer that they would be “reheating the nachos” of the previous speaker.

• Multiple people have spoken in favor of 6-7, highlighting its “linguistic uniqueness”, its “gestural component”, and the fact that it transcends language.

• A CHILD has come to the mic to argue AGAINST 6-7, to deafening applause. “I could say 1-2. Would that become popular too?”

• Someone else has spoken against 6-7, arguing that it didn’t fit the informal category due to its “limited semantic content and largely pragmatic usages”

• The twin of the first child has come to the mic, arguing in FAVOR of 6-7, saying “the adults have their words, let us have ours!” Again, deafening applause

• I regret to announce that 6-7 HAS WON INFORMAL WORD OF THE YEAR IN A LANDSLIDE

[kwekstra]

• Italian Brainrot has been nominated for Digital Word of the Year. “If you’re thinking of googling it, don’t”

• Someone has remarked, regarding “Clanker”, that “we’ve invented a slur for a group of people who don’t even exist yet”

• Other nominees for this category are “The Algorithm”, the “Great Meme Reset”, and “-Slop”

• “-Slop” HAS WON DIGITAL WORD OF THE YEAR

• WOTY MVP Nicole Holliday has declared “If y’all vote for 6-7 for overall Word of the Year I stg I’m DONE”

• Oh damn they’re really rushing through Most Useful word of the Year. Nominees are “clock”, “diabolical”, “rage-bait”, “rot”, “valid crashout”, “That’s AI”, and “Recession Indicator”

• “That’s AI” HAS INEXPLICABLY WON MOST USEFUL WORD OF THE YEAR

[kwekstra]

• Nominees for Word Most Likely To Succeed are “chopped”, “glaze”, “performative male”, “unc”, and “vibe-coding”

• “I think chopped will succeed because there will always be someone who *is* chopped [who needs a word to describe them]”

• The term “choppleganger” has been brought up, a portmanteau of “doppleganger” and “chopped”

• Voting has gone into a runoff between “Chopped” and “Vibe Coding”.

• CHOPPED HAS WON MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED due to technical difficulties

• Someone has nominated “rage-bate” for Overall Word of the Year, saying that the voting software we’re using, which is giving us constant technical difficulties, is “ragebaiting us”.

• Someone has nominated 6-7 for Overall, as it has “brought joy to children all over the world, and who am I to argue against that?”

• “As the only member here of the 6-7 community, I would like to throw my support behind it” - A FULL GROWN ADULT

• The crowd has turned on the voting software, accusing it of being “slop” and “vibe coded”

• “If our tech guy gives us the signal that he’s lost the will to live, we’ll switch to voting by a show of hands”

• “If this isn’t an argument in favor of rage-bait I don’t know what is” - regarding the vote software not working

• We are officially voting by a show of hands

• 17 votes for “The Algorithm”

• 74 votes for “Slop”

• 9 votes for “DOGE (verb)”

• 39 votes for “Reheat Nachos”

• 67 (lol) for “Rage-bait”

• 45 for “6-7”! The MC remarks: “lol 4567”

• We’re doing a runoff between “slop” and “rage-bait”

• The tension is PALPABLE

• “rage-bait” has received 111 votes

• “Slop” HAS WON WORD OF THE YEAR WITH 161 VOTES

[kwekstra]

Word of the Year liveblog: Year 3

A year has passed, language change has occurred, and it is once again time for a vote. Tonight hundreds of linguists will have to decide if they are the brave soldier who will step up to the mic and explain to their colleagues what gooning means.

See my liveblogs for previous years here and here

• Someone spoke in favor of “reheat nachos” for Creative Word of the Year, providing the example sentence “Lady Gaga reheated Beyoncé’s nachos and they were burnt”

• Someone spoke in favor of “Amphifa”, which is a portmanteau of Amphibians and Antifa, in solidarity with “both pacific northwesterners and frogs”

• I don’t have anything interesting to say on this but what the fuck is a “Fridge Cigarette”?

• REHEATED NACHOS WINS MOST CREATIVE WORD OF THE YEAR

• Surprising nobody, 6-7 has been nominated for Informal Word of the Year

• Someone has given an impassioned speech of “x, I fear” for Informal Word of the Year. It didn’t sway opinion, I fear.

• The next person to speak, gave the disclaimer that they would be “reheating the nachos” of the previous speaker.

• Multiple people have spoken in favor of 6-7, highlighting its “linguistic uniqueness”, its “gestural component”, and the fact that it transcends language.

• A CHILD has come to the mic to argue AGAINST 6-7, to deafening applause. “I could say 1-2. Would that become popular too?”

• Someone else has spoken against 6-7, arguing that it didn’t fit the informal category due to its “limited semantic content and largely pragmatic usages”

• The twin of the first child has come to the mic, arguing in FAVOR of 6-7, saying “the adults have their words, let us have ours!” Again, deafening applause

• I regret to announce that 6-7 HAS WON INFORMAL WORD OF THE YEAR IN A LANDSLIDE

[kwekstra]

• Italian Brainrot has been nominated for Digital Word of the Year. “If you’re thinking of googling it, don’t”

• Someone has remarked, regarding “Clanker”, that “we’ve invented a slur for a group of people who don’t even exist yet”

• Other nominees for this category are “The Algorithm”, the “Great Meme Reset”, and “-Slop”

• “-Slop” HAS WON DIGITAL WORD OF THE YEAR

• WOTY MVP Nicole Holliday has declared “If y’all vote for 6-7 for overall Word of the Year I stg I’m DONE”

• Oh damn they’re really rushing through Most Useful word of the Year. Nominees are “clock”, “diabolical”, “rage-bait”, “rot”, “valid crashout”, “That’s AI”, and “Recession Indicator”

• “That’s AI” HAS INEXPLICABLY WON MOST USEFUL WORD OF THE YEAR

[kwekstra]

Word of the Year liveblog: Year 3

A year has passed, language change has occurred, and it is once again time for a vote. Tonight hundreds of linguists will have to decide if they are the brave soldier who will step up to the mic and explain to their colleagues what gooning means.

See my liveblogs for previous years here and here

• Someone spoke in favor of “reheat nachos” for Creative Word of the Year, providing the example sentence “Lady Gaga reheated Beyoncé’s nachos and they were burnt”

• Someone spoke in favor of “Amphifa”, which is a portmanteau of Amphibians and Antifa, in solidarity with “both pacific northwesterners and frogs”

• I don’t have anything interesting to say on this but what the fuck is a “Fridge Cigarette”?

• REHEATED NACHOS WINS MOST CREATIVE WORD OF THE YEAR

• Surprising nobody, 6-7 has been nominated for Informal Word of the Year

• Someone has given an impassioned speech of “x, I fear” for Informal Word of the Year. It didn’t sway opinion, I fear.

• The next person to speak, gave the disclaimer that they would be “reheating the nachos” of the previous speaker.

• Multiple people have spoken in favor of 6-7, highlighting its “linguistic uniqueness”, its “gestural component”, and the fact that it transcends language.

• A CHILD has come to the mic to argue AGAINST 6-7, to deafening applause. “I could say 1-2. Would that become popular too?”

• Someone else has spoken against 6-7, arguing that it didn’t fit the informal category due to its “limited semantic content and largely pragmatic usages”

• The twin of the first child has come to the mic, arguing in FAVOR of 6-7, saying “the adults have their words, let us have ours!” Again, deafening applause

• I regret to announce that 6-7 HAS WON INFORMAL WORD OF THE YEAR IN A LANDSLIDE

[kwekstra]

Hey! Are you still liveblogging the word of the year livestream? Where can one watch that?

Hello! I do intend to cover this year’s vote (pending logistics), but I don’t think there’s any official livestream. I was physically present for the votes I liveblogged.

If you know any of the linguists who are going to be in the room, you could ask them to facetime you! I did see some people doing that last year.

[kwekstra]

Update! The WOTY vote will, in fact, be livestreamed this year, but in order to watch it you need to pay for digital access to the LSA conference.

[kwekstra]

I must regretfully inform the public that "6-7" has been nominated for informal word of the year

[kwekstra]

Hey! Are you still liveblogging the word of the year livestream? Where can one watch that?

Hello! I do intend to cover this year’s vote (pending logistics), but I don’t think there’s any official livestream. I was physically present for the votes I liveblogged.

If you know any of the linguists who are going to be in the room, you could ask them to facetime you! I did see some people doing that last year.

[kwekstra]

This is extremely late by an entire year but I saw your post about a study on neopronouns is there any place I can read this study?

Hi anon! DM me and I’ll send them to u

[leftbooblover]

Morning selfies

[rosenkranz-does-things]

it's plurbin time

[wicketcityart]

harrowhark nonagesimus ⚔️

[toskarin]

recently my elderly shattered-up phone started letting me charge it to 107% which I've been using to get let's just say a little bit extra out of it on long days

[toskarin]

added benefit that this makes it crazy warm and soft so I use it to warm up my coat when it's cold outside

[toskarin]

to be honest with you it's swollen as fuck and that's why I'm rocking with it

[ganurath]

Swollen batteries are incendiary explosives.

[toskarin]

this one's just a phone

[toskarin]

if it was a bomb and not a phone I couldn't make a call on it, but I can because it's a phone, although it will be to the fun department instead of the fire department

[pneeyrose]

respectfully, ma'am, phone and bomb are not mutually exclusive descriptors

[toskarin]

I'm not gatekeeping I'm just speaking from my presently lived experience

[chaos-otter]

When you start speaking from your formally lived experience, be sure to let us know!

[toskarin]

I already live every day with undue formality and noble grace

[toskarin]

I'm not a technician so I don't really see how this applies to me

[bakedbiscuit]

I genuinely can't tell if you're being stupid on purpose

[toskarin]

when you feel that way it's a sign that I'm being smart

[walnutbun]

OP your phone is literally about to explode.

[toskarin]

we've been over this, it's just puffy and I poke it with twigs when it gets too hot

[toskarin]

my mental health is splendid and my phone is fantastic why in the world would I kill myself

[radioinactivity]

[netheris]

Oh god it's the shark post all over again, but this time OP COULD FUCKIN DIE OR BE MAIMED HORRIBLY

[toskarin]

that's really not on the table

[toskarin]

reading earlier in this thread, you will find that it is not a bomb but a phone which is being poked with twigs, and only under certain circumstances

[daylights-rain]

Hey, I’ve worked in IT longer than anyone else, and it’s totally fine to keep using your phone this way! This is because phones are not bombs so they can’t explode.

[toskarin]

as someone who doesn't work in IT, I agree, which creates a consensus across the full spectrum of possible human experiences

[avhira]

My phone nearly exploded (the battery was so swollen I could see the inside of the phone.) you should get your phone looked at

[duality-the-chaos-god]

But its a phone those don't explode

[avhira]

They do when the battery is swollen

[toskarin]

you're thinking of bombs, easy mistake to make, but I addressed this earlier in the thread

[cha0sl1ves0nly0nce]

OP do you have a will or any assets to even need one?

[toskarin]

my will is frankly tremendous and I'd go as far as saying it's one of my strongest assets

[chrampit]

Antler queen

[fishieguyy]

would u join her cult