Oxford Dictionaries has announced the latest words that it is adding to its database, and if you're a teenager who's spent his life on the Internet, you'll recognize many of them.
When the technology boom started happening, there were so many new words to learn. Even terms like "software" and "fax" were, at one time, strange new words. Now, many of those words are so commonplace, it's hard to believe they confounded us when we first heard them.
I don't remember a time prior to the techno-boom when so many words were added with such regularity.
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