O Oxford English Dictionary já escolheu a palavra do ano 2011: Squeezed Middle. O ano passado a palavra foi big society e em 2009 foi unfriend. A língua inglesa evolui a grande velocidade com a apropriação de cada vez mais palavras. Sexting e retweet já foram acrescentadas ao dicionário em agosto deste ano bem como LOL, <3 and OMG no início do ano.
Eis a 'short list' americana das palavras do ano 2011:
- Arab Spring: A series of anti-government uprisings in various countries in North Africa and the Middle East, beginning in Tunisia in December 2010.
- Bunga bunga: Used in reference to parties hosted by the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, at which various illicit sexual activities were alleged to have taken place.
- Clicktivism: The use of social media and other online methods to promote a cause.
- Crowdfunding: The practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.
- Fracking: The forcing open of fissures in subterranean rocks by introducing liquid at high pressure, especially to extract oil or gas.
- Gamification: The application of concepts and techniques from games to other areas of activity, for instance as an online marketing technique.
- Occupy: The name given to an international movement protesting against perceived economic injustice by occupying buildings or public places and staying there for an extended period of time.
- The 99%: The bottom 99% of income earners, regarded collectively.
- Tiger mother: A demanding mother who pushes her children to high achievement using methods regarded as typical of Asian childrearing.
- Sifi: A bank or other financial institution regarded as so vital to the functioning of the overall economy that it cannot be allowed to fail, a.k.a. “systemically important financial institution.”
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