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‘Brain rot’ wins as Oxford’s word of the year
According to Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term ‘brain rot’ is defined as the “supposed deterioration
According to Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term ‘brain rot’ is defined as the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state” as it relates to overdosing on online content without much of a narrative — like TikTok videos. As explains the New York Times, the organization scours a corpus of “some 26 billion words” from news sources across the English-speaking world to identify the “moods and conversations that have shaped 2024.” Seemingly, despite their recognition by the Oxford University Press (the publishing house of the University of Oxford), they haven’t yet shown the sustained and widespread usage that OED editors want to see first.
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