Will "Noob" Be the Millionth Word in the English Language?

[SmilingKitsune]

what about

''meh'' lol....?

You mean it isn't already? ~gasps~ this oversight of theirs must be corrected at once.
Also "noob" shouldn't be added, maybe "newb" could be, unless it already is?

 

[Lukeje]

There is no accurate count of words in the English language, nor is there even such a thing as "the dictionary".

http://dictionary.oed.com/

 

[Valkyira]

There is no accurate count of words in the English language, nor is there even such a thing as "the dictionary".

http://dictionary.oed.com/

No offense but. Owned

 

[Kwan]

Languages that don't change and evolve are dead languages. We change them by speaking them. And just like biological evolution, useful/prolific changes will stay.

So if you don't like the word, don't use it. You're contributing to linguistic evolution just as strongly as if you use it every day. Noob

 

[Vrach]

You mean newbie is not actually in the English language? My Collins Cobuild dictionary disagrees. Newb/noob are just abbreviations/phonetic spellings, not actual words. Adding them would be like adding bewbs. Sure it's there, sure it's used, but it's not a word, it's fucking around with a word's spelling.

Also, just who or what is that website recognized by?

 

[Dense_Electric]

I'm sorry, I didn't know Port Escapist was a destination on Pretentious Cruise Lines. Why exactly should internet slang be invalidated as a candidate for recognized language in the future? More English words than some of you can even comprehend were at one time slang of some kind or another, and have since become so ingrained in our language that we don't even realize what they once were. A hundred years from now, someone using the word "noob" to refer to someone who's unskilled at something isn't going to recognize it as "that word from the internet" any more than we recognize the word "cool" as "that word from the 50's," it's just going to be another word. But instead I see a bunch of linguistic Luddites around here who apparently think that slang only came around in the last ten years and everything before that has always been.