Language

The Triumph of the Swears

The American Dialect Society named “enshittification” word of the year for 2023. But the sweariness didn’t stop there.

What was your word of the year for 2023? For many of the dictionaries and publications around the globe that play the word-of-the-year (WotY) game, artificial intelligence was the dominant theme. Cambridge Dictionary picked the new AI sense of hallucinate as its word of the year, and so did Dictionary.com. The Economist chose ChatGPT, and so did…