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In this episode of the A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack look at three words which were added to Webster’s Dictionary in 2023.
Transcript:
00:00:01
Jack
Welcome to the Adas English podcast. My name is Jack and I’m here with my co-host social. And today we are going back to Webster’s dictionary and looking at some words that have recently been added to Webster’s Dictionary in 2023.
00:00:19
Jack
And so so the first one, I have no idea what this means here. Uh finsta finsta.
00:00:28
Xochitl
Ohh a Finn star. You you don’t know what this.
00:00:32
Jack
It sounds like some kind of.
00:00:33
Jack
Tax thing that I have to file or something.
00:00:36
Xochitl
No, no, it’s a it’s a an insta but for like friends, it’s like a private insta which sounds kind of weird.
00:00:47
Xochitl
Like friend in store or something, but it’s a private insta.
00:00:52
Xochitl
Cause a lot of people have per public Instagrams now and finsta just has more private content and it’s less geared towards like it’s not really a, it’s a social media page in the same way that your personal Facebook would be a social media page and less in the way that a typical.
00:01:11
Xochitl
Instagram is run, which is kind of for like likes and clout and stuff you.
00:01:15
Jack
Ohh so like on Facebook I because I’m so old. I use Facebook. Uh. Mostly. Uhm I can.
00:01:23
Jack
I can make my page public or private, right? I can.
00:01:26
발표자 3
MM.
00:01:27
Jack
So only my friends can see it. But like other strangers out there in the world, cannot. If they if they go to my page, there’s no information.
00:01:35
Jack
Action there. This is basically like a second Instagram account, but it’s it’s just for your friends. Like any just for the people that you want to see it, not promoting your I don’t know what the promoting yourself image or promoting your whatever you’re selling or whatever that would be your public Instagram.
00:01:36
Xochitl
Yes.
00:01:56
Jack
Your regular Instagram.
00:01:58
Xochitl
Yes.
00:01:59
Jack
OK, alright. OK, fenced. Uh, it says here that it stands for fake.
00:02:00
발표자 3
Yeah.
00:02:04
Jack
The.
00:02:05
Jack
Like fake and Insta finsta.
00:02:07
Xochitl
Instagram, huh?
00:02:08
Jack
But maybe you’re you said friend Insta. I think that makes more sense to me. Finsta like friend and Insta Finsta.
00:02:17
Xochitl
Now I’m gonna Google it cause.
00:02:20
Xochitl
What is fenced, which I’m sure our fans will be happy to hear? Yeah, fake Instagram account made so user can post images, interact with other accounts in a more private way.
00:02:30
Jack
Yeah, I mean, that’s exactly what you said.
00:02:30
발표자 3
Usually.
00:02:31
Xochitl
From the accounts followers to close friends. Yeah. So that’s what I thought, friend. Instant. Not fake insta.
00:02:36
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:02:39
Jack
Yeah. Well, we’re we’re quibbling over the portmanteau, but ultimately it doesn’t matter. The meaning is exactly the same. Yeah, since OK.
00:02:44
Xochitl
But the meaning is the same. The meaning is.
00:02:48
Xochitl
Yes.
00:02:51
Jack
All right, so #2, the second one is grammable.
00:02:59
Xochitl
Uh grammable means able to post on Instagram.
00:03:05
Jack
OK.
00:03:06
Xochitl
Like if you’re if you get some a plate of food and it’s just glad that’s not grammable, but if you get a a served like a plate of sushi and it’s beautiful colors and really neat looking, then that’s grammable. You can post it on the gram Instagram.
00:03:23
Jack
OK.
00:03:25
Jack
So I should I ask my wife, honey?
00:03:30
Jack
Am I grammable? Is my face grammable? Yeah, I don’t. I probably don’t want to know the answer right to that.
00:03:36
Xochitl
You probably, I think you’d probably be used more for like your outfit. Like if you dressed up like an outfit and a certain outfit and you’re like, is this outfit grammable like I think it’s it’s less about like a person’s attractiveness, learning more about like.
00:03:48
Jack
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s less about attractiveness. It’s more about just like the the situation or whatever the the, you know, the, the, the outfit or the the way the the food is played.
00:04:00
Jack
Did the way the sun is hitting the mountaintop or whatever? Yeah.
00:04:01
Xochitl
Yes.
00:04:05
Xochitl
Yes, I think it means picture picturesque, you know, picturesque. Like is it picturesque basically.
00:04:08
Jack
Picturesque, yeah.
00:04:12
Jack
Grammable. Yeah, that’s funny. I’ve just. I’ve never heard this before, grammable. But it it makes a lot of sense.
00:04:19
Xochitl
I haven’t really.
00:04:21
Xochitl
I hadn’t really heard anyone use it. I’ll be real, but I just know I know what it means because people say put it on the gram kind of as a joke or do it for the gram. It’s kind of ironic, but it’s not usually used in a in a literal like people aren’t. People are using it in in an ironic way, so I kind of knew to them.
00:04:41
Xochitl
For what it means, but honestly, I’ve never heard anyone kind of say.
00:04:43
Xochitl
It in real.
00:04:44
Xochitl
Life so.
00:04:45
발표자 4
I could the way.
00:04:46
Jack
I could see it used to be like a group of friends are sitting around and then the the waiter brings all the food or waitress.
00:04:52
Jack
The food server brings the food and then somebody goes like grammable like kind of as a question, and then everyone goes. Yeah. And then they pull out their cameras and they your phone is.
00:05:02
Xochitl
Right, that that could work. Or like Dang, this played a very grammable or something. Then people without their phones or whatever. Yeah, I think so.
00:05:03
Jack
Inspected.
00:05:10
발표자 3
OK.
00:05:12
Jack
OK, awesome. Alright, so that was our our second one that was related to to social media and the last one this one is not but this one is I think kind of.
00:05:27
Jack
I think it’s it’s kind of applicable to like these days, like how people are feeling rage quit.
00:05:35
Xochitl
Ohh yeah that one is it’s. It’s usually used in the context of video games where something dumb happens when you’re playing a video game and it makes you rage quit like it’s like yes into the thing and break it. It’s like let’s say your video game is lagging and it keeps kind of.
00:05:47
Jack
You throw the remote control.
00:05:55
Xochitl
Lagging and being slow and taking a long time to load screens or switch screens and so at that point you just get set up and you rage quit because.
00:06:04
Xochitl
You were in a very high, like.
00:06:08
Xochitl
It’s got to work out kind of mindset, you know, so I think.
00:06:10
Jack
A fit of anger or frustration. Something like that.
00:06:13
Xochitl
Yes, yes. So I think for I think it can be used now like with anything like you could say. Ohh I rage quit my job yesterday cause we had a line of of 50 customers and I was the only person working.
00:06:29
Jack
Yeah.
00:06:29
Jack
Yeah. You, you, you, you push the like the I I forget what you call those the the cash register you just threw it on the ground and walked out of the the you know took your badge off threw it on the floor and walked out and never went back to that job again that would be rage quitting.
00:06:29
Xochitl
I am.
00:06:50
Jack
Right.
00:06:51
Xochitl
Yes.
00:06:52
Jack
Yeah.
00:06:53
발표자 4
Yeah. Have you ever rage quit anything before?
00:06:57
Xochitl
I I don’t think I’ve ever rage quit. I’m more of a do it, like, put your head down. Do it. Even though you don’t want to, and then quit later.
00:07:01
Jack
Mm-hmm.
00:07:08
발표자 4
Yeah, I’m a I’m a I’m a quiet quitter. I think there’s another. Yeah.
00:07:12
Xochitl
I’m quite quitter too, Jack. That’s a. That’s another one. Our our uh listeners may not know quiet quitting is. Is something used nowadays? Refer to someone who starts doing the bare minimum or under the bare minimum of responsibility at a job in order to.
00:07:31
Xochitl
Basically.
00:07:33
Xochitl
Kind of quit or get fired without having to quit.
00:07:38
Jack
Yeah, it’s a very passive aggressive, but but it’s, but it’s much easier than like facing the boss and telling them, you know, I hate this job. You know, it’s it’s when I worked in like.
00:07:48
Jack
A lot of.
00:07:49
Jack
Like customer service jobs, when I was young, you know, when I was in high school and college and you know, I would quite quit.
00:07:58
Jack
You know, basically like mentally I’m. I’m done working.
00:08:03
Jack
Six months before I actually stopped working the job. So you know, I wasn’t even doing any of the work anymore or just to just to barely enough to not get fired, you know?
00:08:16
Xochitl
Yeah, I was quiet. I was quite quitting at the law firm I worked at when I first got out of college and my first job at college was at that law firm. I hated that job and definitely quite, but especially when I worked out how much I was making an hour.
00:08:16
Jack
Just enough to not get fired.
00:08:32
Jack
Right.
00:08:34
Xochitl
No. No way was I gonna be sitting there working my **** off. It was just a no brainer. I quite quit immediately.
00:08:42
Jack
Yeah, you gotta you gotta pay me the the the lowest amount legally possible. You’re gonna get that level of effort from me. That that’s it. Like how hard I try.
00:08:51
발표자 3
Yes.
00:08:54
Jack
Is very much. Compares very much to how much you pay me. You know you wanna pay me 50 bucks an hour? I’ll work my **** off, you know? So it’s just capitalism folks, but yeah.
00:09:01
발표자 3
Yep.
00:09:10
Jack
OK.
00:09:11
Xochitl
Really.
00:09:12
Jack
Yeah, that. That’s our last one for today.
00:09:15
Xochitl
Oh great all.
00:09:16
Xochitl
Right. Well, if you guys have any questions about these or you have any?
00:09:19
Xochitl
Questions about other new.
00:09:20
Xochitl
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00:09:33
발표자 3
Bye bye.
00:09:34
발표자 4
Bye bye.
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