http://www.languagemonitor.com/

 

Global Language Monitor does this worldwide media language report every year.

 

"string theory" was phrase #7

 

"global warming" was up there.

 

a number of "politically correct" words and phrases were spotlighted in the report.

 

there was a separate part of the report concerning youthspeak. if you are highly tuned-in you may be able to guess some of the expressions that made the top ten list in various categories

Mad props bro. That stuff was a'ight. Gotta go. Got some crunk'n bizznizzle to take care of. See ya mang.

 

Have you ever heard of Chinglish?

2. Tsunami: From the Japanese tsu nami for 'harbor wave', few recognized the word before disaster struck on Christmas Day, 2004, but the word subsequently flooded with unprecedented (and sustained) media coverage.

 

I hope people aren't actually as stupid and ignorant as the Language moniter thinks they are.

...few recognized the word...

 

Does that mean "few" worldwide or "few" in that area?

Podcast is #3 on their music list between Baile and Reggaeton?

 

Pathetic...

Who is responsible for coining these words?

9. SMS: Short Message Service. The world's youth sent over a trillion text messages in 2005. Currently being texted are full-length novels, news, private messages and everything in between.

AHA! It truly wasnt a typo made 20 times online! It truly is a 'MSM' and not a 'MSG' (message) hehe. .

 

Where is ''Spanglish'' on this? Mix of english and spanish. They have some wacky mix if chinese and english that i have never heard of . .

 

Southern California YouthSpeak Bonus: Morphing any single syllable word into 3, 4 or even 5 syllables.

 

this is so freakin babolaciousley truolaciousley true! (use to live in San Diego region for 13 years of my life and recently moved to ATL )

Tsunami isn't a buzzword...it's just a regular word.

 

And added to that list of buzzwords should be:

 

11) buzzword