Not a comment on "slop", but a puzzle that cropped up today, boxing day. I am having some Turkey ,straight from the refrigerator, and wonder how "Cold Turkey" comes by its common meaning?
From your fine list, I vote for "Empathy," given the attempt over the past year — in certain ideological spaces — to re-cast this beautiful quality as a weakness, as dangerous, even as a moral failing (!) — rather than a fundamental aspect of being a decent, caring human being. To empathize is to have emotional intelligence, the capacity to perceive and understand the realities of other people, and to respond with sympathy and compassion, or with happiness and celebration, as warranted. Making "Empathy" Word of the Year would be a lovely way to bring more attention to how we cultivate empathy (some psychologists say it is in part a learned skill as well as an inherent predisposition) and to the enormous value is has for personal life — as well as for justice, trust, and wise policies in civic life.
The dictionarymeisters may have spoken, but I'm not at all in favor of their choices - slop, six-seven, rage bait, parasocial, and vibe coding. They bring nothing at all to the table, in my opinion. Who am I, though, to go against their choices?
Your candidates for Word of the Year - authoritarian, fascist, empathy, and compassion - are much more in sync with my thoughts this year. I see them and feel them almost every day, unfortunately.
I'm going to nominate, but not to the American Dialect Society (I think they'd be insulted), a word that I think of many times each day. It pops into my mind whenever I encounter or think of your words. It's ASSHOLE.
I would vote for empathy, because it needs to be mentioned more to bring it to mind more often, not because it has been used enough.
Slop is a time-honored accurate word, with wonderful onomatopoeia. Even better that it describes one of the key weaknesses of AI systems.
Not a comment on "slop", but a puzzle that cropped up today, boxing day. I am having some Turkey ,straight from the refrigerator, and wonder how "Cold Turkey" comes by its common meaning?
From your fine list, I vote for "Empathy," given the attempt over the past year — in certain ideological spaces — to re-cast this beautiful quality as a weakness, as dangerous, even as a moral failing (!) — rather than a fundamental aspect of being a decent, caring human being. To empathize is to have emotional intelligence, the capacity to perceive and understand the realities of other people, and to respond with sympathy and compassion, or with happiness and celebration, as warranted. Making "Empathy" Word of the Year would be a lovely way to bring more attention to how we cultivate empathy (some psychologists say it is in part a learned skill as well as an inherent predisposition) and to the enormous value is has for personal life — as well as for justice, trust, and wise policies in civic life.
The dictionarymeisters may have spoken, but I'm not at all in favor of their choices - slop, six-seven, rage bait, parasocial, and vibe coding. They bring nothing at all to the table, in my opinion. Who am I, though, to go against their choices?
Your candidates for Word of the Year - authoritarian, fascist, empathy, and compassion - are much more in sync with my thoughts this year. I see them and feel them almost every day, unfortunately.
I'm going to nominate, but not to the American Dialect Society (I think they'd be insulted), a word that I think of many times each day. It pops into my mind whenever I encounter or think of your words. It's ASSHOLE.
Thanks for listening. It's now time for my meds.
Authoritarian slop is what I would say. Because that’s what he is.