{"id":43559,"date":"2012-08-23T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T10:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=43559"},"modified":"2012-08-23T21:20:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T19:20:45","slug":"lolz-ridic-internet-terms-added-to-oxford-online-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/43559-lolz-ridic-internet-terms-added-to-oxford-online-dictionary","title":{"rendered":"Lolz! Ridic internet terms added to Oxford Online Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular words associated with Internet jargon and social media have been included in the online component of the Oxford English Dictionary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/tweeps?q=tweeps\" target=\"_blank\">Tweeps<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/hackathon?q=hackathon\" target=\"_blank\">hackathon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/lolz?q=lolz\" target=\"_blank\">lolz<\/a> have all been entered into the Oxford Online Dictionary.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>tweeps<\/strong>, pl. n.: a person\u2019s followers on the social networking site Twitter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>lolz<\/strong>, pl. n.: an expression of fun, laughter, or amusement; used especially online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hackathon<\/strong>, pl. n.: an event, typically lasting several days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other popular online terms, such as \u201cphotobombing\u201d, \u201cUI\u201d (user interface), the abbreviated \u201cridic\u201d (from \u201cridiculous\u201d), and the onomatopoeic \u201cmwhahaha\u201d (describing a maniacal laugh) have also been added to the database.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/hackathon?q=hackathon\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Dictionaries Online<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/57913-be-careful-what-you-say-on-the-internet.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Be careful what you say on the internet<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/57803-killing-for-internet-access.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Killing for Internet access<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/56969-biggest-hacks-of-2012-so-far.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Biggest hacks of 2012 (so far)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Online Dictionary gets injected with some Internet terminology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":43560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2378],"class_list":["post-43559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43561,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43559\/revisions\/43561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}