As is customary, the RAE started the year with new additions in its dictionary, giving the "yes" to new words, which, although they were said more or less in according to which localities, were still not "well seen" or officially accepted ...
Next, we leave you with them, but as a personal and totally subjective note, I have to say before that there are words that I do not understand that are accepted. It could be the cases of "otubre", "ño", "toballa", "almóndiga" or "papichulo" ... I think that those of the RAE are exceeding in this of "renew or die." accepting words that are nothing more than linguistic errors ... But, there they!
Words accepted from now on!
- Meatloaf: idiom of the word "meatball"
- Thus: vulgarism of "thus"
- culmen: used to refer to the tail or buttocks
- Exchange: undo or roll back a change
- Toballe: terry cloth or towel idiom
- abracadabrant: word that describes something very surprising and puzzling
- Whiskey: adaptation of whiskey anglicism
- Wanderer: idiom for "vagabond"
- Geek or geek: term used to describe something extravagant, weird, or eccentric
- Cederron: Spanish adaptation of the term CD-ROM
- October: valid to name the tenth month of the year
- papahuevos: synonym of papanatas
- Not: diminutive of «sir»
- Tweet: digital message sent via Twitter
- Pimp Daddy: man whose physical attractiveness is the object of desire
- Spanglish: Speech modality of some Hispanic groups in the United States in which lexical and grammatical elements of Spanish and English are mixed
- Conflict: provoke a conflict in something or someone
- Euroscepticism: referring to distrust towards the political projects of the European Union.
- Friend with benefits: person who maintains with another a relationship of less formal commitment than a courtship but greater than a friendship.
And you, our readers, what is your opinion of these new additions? Do you really see yourself writing "toballa" or "otubre"?
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* Update: There are some readers who either by comments on this same post or by twitter have contacted me to let me know that this information is wrong regarding the dates of incorporation of said words. For this reason I have contacted the RAE through a form asking this question and some others. As soon as they answer me and know something new, I will publish it again in this same post, with the appropriate corrections. Thanks for the warning. All the best. Carmen Guillén.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Instead of evolving we are regressing ...
It's a prank????
Wow ... Once again the endless story, this bread holds everything ... Anyway. But there is no room for the inclusion of words in feminine because it sounds redundant, because the masculine is generic, and endless obstacles that they claim not to admit that gender equality is reflected in writing and speaking. When I grow up I want to be a RAE writer !! By the way, I am a woman ...
It seems fine to me to renew to include new words, even if they want words from other sources, but not misspellings. In the end they will become Google. The 'Clean, fix and give splendor' thing always sounded like a detergent ad to me, but maybe they were right. And of course, some things are reluctant to change, although they reflect more of the current reality and others change without rhyme or reason. Turn off and let's go.
THIS ACADEMIC STUPIDITY I HAVE SHARED ON FACEBOOK, WITH A LONGER COMMENT.
BUT WHO CHOSEN ENOUGH OF THESE ACADEMIC ARMCHAIR OCCUPANTS?
Well, my comment is that we are losing the North. Instead of evolving for the better, we are going backwards. Our Castilian is going to the "screw" if you allow me the qualifier. This is nonsense. I wonder, who sits down to think these "stupid"? . Anyway, continue that we are leaving young people a vocabulary that pa que.
It is a great shame the ignominy winning the intelligence….
I think this is how respect for the RAE
Of all these words, the only one that makes sense would be "tramp." The others are aberrations and deformations that are observed in ignorant and uneducated people. It cannot be the end of a dictionary of a constituted language. If that's the goal, you don't need a dictionary of the language or language. Some Venezuelan peasants say apricós for precocious. I hope they don't accept that outrage
I have not found the official publication of the RAE
Hi Carmen how are you?
It seems to me that there is a lack of updating in the data that you provide us as if they were valid for the year that begins.
Many of the words that you indicate to us as newly incorporated in the DRAE have already appeared there for a long time. I tell you because I have here with me the 1992 edition, which can already be considered very outdated, however I have seen there the existence of nine of the terms that you indicate: abracadabrante, almóndiga, asín, unchange, whiskey, otubre, papahuevos, toballa and vagamundo.
Also, what is the use of incorporating a word like ‹cederrón› now, if this no longer exists?
Does the RAE agree with the news or what?
With kind regards,
Isaac Nunes
There are some readers who either by comments on this entry or by twitter have contacted me to warn me that this information is wrong in terms of incorporation dates of said words. For this reason I have contacted the RAE through a form asking this question and some others. As soon as they answer me and know something new, I will publish it again in this same post, with the appropriate corrections. Thanks for the warning. All the best. Carmen Guillén.
For me it is a real shame that the RAE accepts these idioms or words that are vulgar, wrongly said this makes the language is in decline, I see the RAE badly
And where do you get the new words from? (curiosity) I don't think you buy a dictionary every year and share page by page