{"id":661,"date":"2022-12-05T21:50:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=661"},"modified":"2022-12-05T21:53:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:53:03","slug":"gaslit-by-goblins-the-dictionary-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/gaslit-by-goblins-the-dictionary-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaslit by Goblins – the dictionary definition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is dissent among the lexicographers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas last year the Oxford English Dictionary (with the somewhat American-sounding diminutive ‘vax’) and Merriam-Webster (with the more formal, and somehow British sounding vaccine) concurred on word of the year, this time they have diverged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the M-W, this year’s word is ‘gaslighting’, a not-especially-new term used to describe a kind of cruel psychological manipulation. However, the OED put their favoured options (which included a phrase <\/a>and a hashtag!) to a public vote, and came up with ‘goblin mode’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is ‘goblin mode’, you may ask? Some Tolkienesque monstrous tendency to murderous behaviour? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Goblin Mode?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

No, apparently it is a term of online usage which is defined as \u201ca type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, the kind of behaviour one expects from people who consider hashtags to be words and eschew responsibility by putting their work out to a vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel like the OED has started gaslighting me. I’m team Merriam-Webster until the goblin mode ceases in Oxford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is dissent among the lexicographers! Whereas last year the Oxford English Dictionary (with the somewhat American-sounding diminutive ‘vax’) and Merriam-Webster (with the more formal, and somehow British sounding vaccine) concurred on word of the year, this time they have diverged. For the M-W, this year’s word is ‘gaslighting’, a not-especially-new term used to describe … <\/p>\n

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