http://qz.com/249397/the-oxford-dictionarys-new-words-are-amazeballs-and-a-hot-mess-of-clickbait-listicle-douchebaggery/

List of new words recognised as part of the english language. Using amazeballs in an essay is now acceptable.

Using amazeballs in an essay is now acceptable.

 

I can't even begin to imagine why you would think that. (And why is this in politics?)

I too am abashed to see this in politics. People can and do use any words that they care to and that includes words they make up. Dictionaries are not political instruments; they are factual records. Dictionaries receive regular updates to reflect words in common usage as well as words that have fallen out and receive an archaic notation. Dictionaries do not dictate what can be said, they designate what has been said.

 

Claims to the contrary are just so much douchebaggery.

Well put.

 

Of course, that might not be true in somewhere like North Korea...

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Moved from Politics to the Lounge.

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”

 

Mark Twain

Using amazeballs in an essay is now acceptable.

 

Swearwords are listed in the dictionary, but the use of them is typically not acceptable.

 

Dictionaries do not dictate what can be said, they designate what has been said.

 

Exactly.