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jessgrieser.com
WOTY nom just dropped. #woty2025
elmobronowski.bsky.social elmobronowski.bsky.social @elmobronowski.bsky.social · Feb 26
He's exercising the power of the "bullshit pulpit"
February 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
americandialect.org
Make your words-of-the-year nominations! THIS IS THE ONLY #WOTY2025 vote that matters! bit.ly/WOTY2024noms You can also email then woty@americandialect.org #linguistics #language #words #etymology #languages
December 8, 2024 at 12:09 AM
ceehawk.bsky.social
“The Very Best Wrestlers of the Year 2025” is now available for purchase!

Art, Features, Bios, Collages, and More!

Enjoy!

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January 16, 2026 at 5:53 AM
mixedlinguist.bsky.social
At today’s marathon, there were signs at mile 6.7 and at 19.5 (26.2-6.7) that just said 6.7. Both were held by groups of teens, and both times, I just yelled “6 7” and they went wild. I’m ancient and it’s on the way out, but at least it was fun in the meantime! #WOTY2025
October 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
toddthelinguist.bsky.social
#woty2025
nora.zone nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · Sep 15
i really do think "glorch" is a good contender for a word for "a computer fucking up because some dipshit replaced something that was working fine with some machine learning bullshit"
September 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
jonbakos.bsky.social
Slop is Digital Word of the Year!
#woty2025
January 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
samcorbin.bsky.social
it’s official: -slop (combining form and/or headword) is the @americandialect.org #WOTY2025 !!
January 10, 2026 at 2:49 AM
thewarningaust.bsky.social
A very emotional Dany as she and her sisters receive the "Sisterhood Award" at the Glamour Women of the Year 2025 in Mexico City.

#GlamourWOTY #MujeresDelAño #WOTY2025 #Glamour25 #TheWarning
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
thewarningaust.bsky.social
Rock, power and style. 💥
Paulina, Daniela, and Alejandra Villarreal of The Warning arrive with colorful looks black radiating all their energy and an attitude that screams empowerment. ✨

Post credits: Glamour Mexico

#GlamourWOTY #MujeresDelAño #WOTY2025 #Glamour25 #TheWarning
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
thewarningaust.bsky.social
One of the most emotional moments of Glamour Women of the Year 2025 was when Monica Vélez, mom of Dany, Ale and Pau Villarreal of #TheWarning, handed the "Sisterhood" award to her daughters, reminding us of the unbreakable bond they have. ❤️

#GlamourWOTY #MujeresDelAño #WOTY2025 #Glamour25
November 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
jonbakos.bsky.social
Slop is the 2025 Word of the Year! #woty2025
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media.tenor.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:31 AM
fritinancy.bsky.social
Some Word of the Year candidates I’m tracking (in addition to the ones I’ve already written about):

Labubu
Grief tech
Alligator Alcatraz
TESCREAL
Cowardcore
Wirkin bag

#woty2025
July 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
lynneguist.bsky.social
The next of the Big English Dictionary #WotY2025 is Cambridge's 'parasocial'

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Parasocial is named as Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year
Examples include the parasocial interest shown by fans to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
lynneguist.bsky.social
The Canadian English Dictionary’s #WotY2025 is

maplewashing

canadianenglishdictionary.ca/media/2025-c...
canadianenglishdictionary.ca
December 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
toddthelinguist.bsky.social
strong support for "coded" as #woty2025

It's not brand new, but I do think it's really escaped containment
brr.bsky.social brr @brr.bsky.social · Nov 25
what?
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
jessgrieser.com
I regret to inform you that I think 6-7 is going to win #WOTY2025. It's just too bang on all the criteria.

I realize you do not want it to win.
I do not want it to win, either.
Nevertheless language gonna language.
December 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
linguistihawk.bsky.social
I asked my high school students for Word of the Year nominations, and if “low taper fade” isn’t on the ballot I think I’m gonna have to nominate it from the floor.
#WOTY2025

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January 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
becauselanguage.com
Option 5 is the new Group 7
#WotY2025 #WotY25
January 10, 2026 at 2:23 AM
spacyoddity.bsky.social
slopsquatting for #WOTY2025
janelleshane.com Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · Apr 12
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
daviddlevine.com David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · Apr 12
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
April 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
samcorbin.bsky.social
at the #WOTY2025 vote and a literal middle-school child just came up to the mic to speak against 6-7 as Informal WoTY by saying “are we really just saying two numbers?”
January 10, 2026 at 1:36 AM
joeystanley.com
“Vibe coding” for #woty2025.
andrew.heiss.phd Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Jun 5
Updated my "AI, LLMs, and bullshit" mini-lecture post in my dataviz class with a new section on vibe coding datavizs25.classes.andrewheiss.com/resource/ai-...
Vibe coding and learning Remember that LLMs are (philosophical) bullshit machines. They don’t care if the answer if gives you is wrong or right. They don’t care if the code runs or not. All they care about is if the answer looks plausible. That said, in part due to the massive amount of publicly available code that’s inside their training data, LLMs can work okay with code in limited circumstances. Think of them as fancy documentation—if a programming language or package has good documentation with lots of good examples online, the stuff that LLMs generate about it will generally have good coverage and won’t be completely made up. They work well enough that a whole new approach to programming has emerged: vibe coding. When vibe coding, you essentially tell an LLM what you want it to make and then let it actually build the whole thing. Some code editors actually allow LLMs to create and edit files directly on your computer. Like, you can say Make a website that has a login page where users can log in and then create and edit blog posts. Create a theme for it that is mostly blue, but with some nice contrasting colors, and use a warm, friendly sans serif font. Add some photos from Flickr too. … and it will attempt to do that, creating all the necessary files and code. It feels neat and magical to code without coding. If you know what you’re doing, and you mistrust everything the LLM spits out, and hand-check everything it says, vibe coding can save you some time. HOWEVER it is (1) potentially dangerous, and (2) bad for learning. Danger! Because LLMs are designed to make plausible looking code, they can reference external packages that don’t exist. For instance, you might want to make a lollipop chart, and it’ll say something like Certainly! First, run remotes::install_github("someone/gglollipop") and then run library(gglollipop) to load it. BUT GUESS WHAT. There is no package named {gglollipop}. It’s not a thing. Malicious actors also vibe code and look for the names of packages that LLMs think should exist, then they go and create those packages themselves, but include malware in those fake packages. If you’re using an editor that allows LLMs to make changes to your computer, it can run all this code without you knowing what happens and bad things can happen. Additionally, vibe-coded code can run well but be full of security vulnerabilities and issues and inefficiencies and bugs. The code it generates is essentially an average of all other code online—it will have bugs and security issues. It’s also incredibly easy to accidentally expose private information to LLMs, like feeding them passwords, usernames, private data, and so on, especially if you’re mindlessly generating and running code. Always distrust and be suspicious about all code that LLMs generate. Bad for learning! Some people claim that vibe coding helps them learn how to code. This is most likely not the case—pure vibe coding likely hurts learning. Think of learning to code like learning a language. You could try to learn French by watching hours and hours of French movies, and you’d certainly pick stuff up, but you won’t learn nearly as well as you would by taking a dedicated French class. You need the foundation first. If you take a few years of French classes and then watch hours and hours of French movies, you’ll learn a lot. If you jump right into a pure media-based approach to learning, it’ll be detrimental to learning the language. Recent research explores this idea with LLMs: Students who substitute some of their learning activities with LLMs (e.g., by generating solutions to exercises) increase the volume of topics they can learn about but decrease their understanding of each topic. Students who complement their learning activities with LLMs (e.g., by asking for explanations) do not increase topic volume but do increase their understanding. We also observe that LLMs widen the gap between students with low and high prior knowledge. (Lehmann, Cornelius, and Sting 2025) Prior knowledge is essential if you want to do any code-related stuff with LLMs, and even then, LLMs are helpful when asking for explanations (e.g. “This code works, but I don’t know why! Can you explain what’s happening with geom_point() here?”), but far less helpful for learning than just generating plausible-looking answers. I can typically tell when you submit code generated by an LLM; it has a certain vibe/style to it and often gives you extraneous code that you don’t actually need to use. Like this—this comes right from ChatGPT: # Load the required libraries library(dplyr) # Read a file named cars.csv into the R session data <- read.csv("data/cars.csv") # Calculate the average value of cty by class average_cty_by_class <- data %>% group_by(class) %>% summarize(average_cty = mean(cty, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop") # Show the results print(average_cty_by_class) The “tells” Here’s how I can tell that that ↑ code comes from an LLM: Comments at every stage read.csv() instead of read_csv(), The older %>% pipe instead of the newer |> pipe na.rm = TRUE inside mean() .groups = "drop" inside summarize() Using print() to show the created object In general, don’t ever just copy/paste from ChatGPT and hope it runs. If you do use these tools, use them to ask for explanations. Make sure you know what every line of code is doing. For example, if it spits out summarize(average_cty = mean(cty, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop"), and you don’t know what those na.rm = TRUE or .groups = "drop" things mean, look at the help page for mean() and see what na.rm actually does so you can decide if you really need to use it or not, or ask the LLM why it included it. I will call out code that looks vibe-coded in your assignments. Please don’t do it.
June 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
becauselanguage.com
I love this one because it's got a sense of much-needed skepticism about GenAI #WotY2025 #WotY25
jonbakos.bsky.social Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · Jan 10
That's AI is Most Useful Word of the Year! #woty25
January 10, 2026 at 2:16 AM
samcorbin.bsky.social
in my humble opinion the most exciting moment of #WOTY2025 was when the voting module was glitching and we were briefly given the opportunity to crown “Option 5”
January 10, 2026 at 2:21 AM
lynneguist.bsky.social
The latest #WotY2025 is from Macquarie Dictionary:

AI slop

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face
Term was up against a shortlist including blind box, ate (and left no crumbs) and Roman Empire
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
americandialect.org
The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
2025 Word of the Year Is “Slop”
New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025. More than three hundred attendees took part in the…
americandialect.org
January 10, 2026 at 8:18 AM