[freestyle24147]

If I were one to use the word "cringe", a fifty year old willfully using the words "kinda cringe" would absolutely be cringe.

[grandma_tea]

Language changes. Adapt or be cringe.

[shagie]

INCYMI, FWIW, pwn, MacGyver, cringe and ICYMI have been part of the M-W dictionary for three years.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/new-words-in-the-di...

> The dictionary chronicles how the language grows and changes, which means new words and definitions must continually be added. When many people use a word in the same way, over a long enough period of time, that word becomes eligible for inclusion.

[082349872349872]

FWIW, "fwiw" was already common on Usenet concurrently with this purity test.

(I'd call 60% of that list to have been in use before the turn of the century)

[shagie]

MacGyver hasn't been on the air for three decades... I was pointing out that language changes and "cringe" has been recognized as part of the (American) english language for a few years now (by one dictionary publisher).

[082349872349872]

Agreed; I had just been surprised that the others had all been added in the very same year as "yeet".