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Language is a living breathing entity… and it evolves too…

New technology necessities the addition of new words to describe new phenomena…

While in university…a very intelligent linguist while lecturing about language… stated that most new words are created…invented on school campuses or ghettos…and the street… Research has provin that to be true…

In the last school that I was teaching…math, the kids were scared of the English department teachers… both ladies and gentlemen… the teachers were very “judgmental” and “hard markers”… according to the students… Many of them opted out for Summer School to avoid these teachers… who I think got a kick out of putting down the kids… Their attitude… “I know it all… and you don’t know anything…” scared the kids out of their shit…

Language is supposed to be a path to creativity… the more creative the kids are…the more they should be encouraged… NOT put down… “Oh… there must be a coma here and a semi-colon there…” ruins the party… and kills the creativity… The English department people were the kills of talent… maybe they should be charged as such… assassins…

Kids try… kids imagine… kids create… Teachers should not stone them down… they should encourage and they should teach them how to “break the rules” and be successful…

The last few days the Oxford English language dictionary announced the best word created in 2014… the winner is “vape”… and there are quite a few runner ups…

These guys are vaping... despite the dirty habit... they are trying their best to enjoy the smoke...

But, who needs smoke to be high...?

Try good music... the music that you like... and get high on music...

Try good food... taste and enjoy and get high on food...

Try good company... brilliant ideas and a good polylogue... get high on good company...

If nothing works have a glass of wine... and act civilized and get high on wine... if you want to be not that civilized... try a glass of vodka... and get high on ONE glass of it... getting drunk and getting high are two different things... That's why they say "stoned" and "high"...

These ladies are attempting to get high on smoke... 

The left one is in space... the right one is imagining her boy friend...

But the habit is disgusting... and the business Big Brothers will stop at nothing o make a buck or two... They do not care about the lungs... they are motivated by greed and want to make money...

You get high on smoke... They get high on money...

The English language is updated constantly with new terms and phrases. But which will stay with us? Many new words are created during the year, but some will stay with us and some will just disappear after few months... The English teachers should hold "New word contests"... instead of "Oh you mis-spelled this and lost 2 marks..."  The English teachers should hold..."Break the rules contests..." See which rule is broken imaginatively... and logically... 

I always loved breaking the laws... logically... and no one could have faulted me... After all everything logical is correct... even if the English teachers say otherwise... What do they know... they are as mortal as any one of us... and mortals are temporal and temporal things are transient...

Oxford Dictionaries editors have just announced the term "vape" as their international Word of the Year (WOTY).

Vape is flexible enough to serve as both a noun (‘an electronic cigarette or similar device; an act of inhaling and exhaling the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device’) and a verb (to ‘inhale and exhale the vapour produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device’), the word turns out to predate even the invention of e-cigarettes. That occurred in China in 2003, but the word’s first known usage came 20 years before, when an author named Rob Stepney, writing in the pages of the now defunct UK magazine New Society, described a hypothetical device being explored at the time: “an inhaler or ‘non-combustible’ cigarette, looking much like the real thing, but… delivering a metered dose of nicotine vapour. (The new habit, if it catches on, would be known as vaping.)”

And catch on it did. In the past five years, e-cigarettes have grown into a multi-million dollar industry, and language has kept pace nimbly. The word began appearing regularly in mainstream sources in around 2009, and according to Oxford Dictionaries editors, its usage increased sixfold last year. In 2014, it has more than doubled again. English now has a vaping lexicon that extends to vape pens, vape shops and vaporiums.

It triumphed over a shortlist of six other words...

Check the list…

• bae – a term of endearment for a significant other, originating in African-American English.
•  budtender – whose job is to serve customers in a cannabis dispensary or shop).
•  contactless – as in payment made by tapping a credit card, say,
•  indyref  – the referendum on Scottish independence or any other  referendum for independence.
•  normcore  – the trend for everyday, unfashionable clothing worn as a deliberate fashion statement.
•  slacktivism (do-good actions regarded as requiring little time or investment, like signing an online petition).

Others besides Oxford Dictionaries...that pick words too...

Chambers dictionaries has picked overshare while Collins dictionaries have picked photobomb...

Last year the word selfie won the honour... It trumpted "bitcoin" and "twerk" ... 

As it is most words are coming from innovations in technology... I guess the English teachers should be banished to a desert where they can yell whatever they want... but no one listens... and they should leave the kids alone to create and recreate...