The use of social networking sites has allowed new vocabulary to be coined as users make up words to express a particular idea which will later be viralized and enter popular usage.
Words like manhandle and blacklisted goes out of fashion with the rise of social trends like feminism and anti racism.So current lingo shows the creativeness of the inventor like blamegame or kickass.The young people go a step further in reducing words into acronyms like LOL or MILF or YOLO.
Some words come and go very fast .Last year the word was milkshake duck to describe someone once highly regarded is found to be not true to character .In English we say that idols have feet of clay.Now the word of the year is "Me Too" in view of the anti discrimination of female victims and anther word that lost to it is Big Dick Energy,Deepfake and Single Use.How language evolves has to be understood in line with the socio-cultural context of the changes in society.I guess the dumb blonde and the dickhead has gone out of fashion .
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