For Words of the Year: Brat, Brain Rot, Polarization - December 10, 2024

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1. 0:01From brat to brain rot and polarization,
2. 0:06word experts agree that social media and politics have driven conversations that use these terms.
3. 0:16Here are their selections for Word of the Year.
4. 0:21The American dictionary publisher, Merriam-Webster, year,
5. 0:26selected Polarization as its word of the year for 2024.
6. 0:32The dictionary publisher defines Polarization
7. 0:36as division into two sharply distinct opposites,
8. 0:42especially a state in which the opinions, beliefs,
9. 0:47or interests of a group or society become concentrated at opposing extremes.
10. 0:56As divided as Americans appear,
11. 1:00Merriam-Webster says, polarization happens to be one idea
12. 1:06that both sides of the political spectrum agree on.
13. 1:12The word was widely used in news stories and broadcasts to describe the presidential election
14. 1:20in the United States.
15. 1:24Supporters of both candidates, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris,
16. 1:31voiced the opinion that the opposing candidate was a threat to the nation.
17. 1:39The U.S.
18. 1:40election also brought attention to two other words, pander and weird.
19. 1:48Trump's supporters accused Harris of pandering,
20. 1:53in other words, changing her policy positions to get votes.
21. 1:59And Democratic vice presidential candidate, Tim Woehls, called his opponents weird,
22. 2:07meaning strange or unusual.
23. 2:12The editors at Britain's Oxford University Press say usage of its word
24. 2:19-of-the-year selection brain rot,
25. 2:23increased by 230 percent from 2023 to 2024.
26. 2:31Oxford defines brain rot as the supposed deterioration of a person's mental
27. 2:38or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material,
28. 2:47now particularly online content, considered to be trivial or unchallenging.
29. 2:56The phrase likely first appeared, in written form,
30. 3:01in Henry David Thoreau's 1854 book Walden
31. 3:07about his experiences living a simple lifestyle.
32. 3:12style. He wrote, While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot,
33. 3:18will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally.
34. 3:28In 2024 the phrase has been used to describe concerns about the harm of over-consuming
35. 3:36or for watching and reading too much online material.
36. 3:43Casper Grathwall, President of Oxford Languages, noted,
37. 3:48I find it fascinating that the term brain rot has been adopted by Gen Z and Gen Alpha,
38. 3:56those communities largely responsible for the use and creation
39. 4:02of the digital content the term refers to.
40. 4:07Politics and social media come together in the Collins dictionary's selection of brat
41. 4:15as its word of the year.
42. 4:18The most recent usage of brat started as the title of an album by pop singer Charlie XCX.
43. 4:28Then it went viral as a campaign slogan,
44. 4:33Kamala is brat, for the Democratic presidential candidate.
45. 4:40The word means different things to different people.
46. 4:45Traditionally, brat describes an immature person or an unruly child,
47. 4:51but Collins says it is now used to describe a person with confident, independent,
48. 5:00and hedonistic attitude.
49. 5:04Collins says the term brat has clearly captured something of the spirit of the age,
50. 5:12and for a short time the word brat summer even established itself as an aesthetic
51. 5:21and a way of life.
52. 5:23life. The online Dictionary .com selected Demure
53. 5:30as its word of the year for 2024.
54. 5:36Between January and the end of August,
55. 5:39Dictionary .com said the word saw a nearly 1 ,200 percent increase
56. 5:47in usage in digital web media alone.
57. 5:53The Sharp Rise is credited to several videos on TikTok by Jules Lebron.
58. 6:02You see how I do my makeup for work, she asked?
59. 6:07Very demure, very mindful.
60. 6:11Demure is another example of how popular word usage changes over time.
61. 6:20In the 14th century, demure was used to describe people who avoid bringing attention to themselves.
62. 6:30Today, the word is used to describe someone who brings attention to themselves
63. 6:37with refined and sophisticated appearance or behavior.
64. 6:44And those are the words of the year for 2024.
65. 6:50I'm Mario Ritter, Jr.