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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 A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I’m here with my co-host social. And today we are stepping into the vocabulary spotlight and social. I have a list here of 24 new words that were recently added to Webster’s Dictionary in 2023.
00:00:23
Jack
And I thought it would be kind of a fun be fun to kind of go through this list over the next several months and so maybe we’ll do like 3 words per episode.
00:00:36
Jack
Word and the first word. I’m just gonna kind of test you and see if you know what the the meaning is beast mode.
00:00:46
Xochitl
Ohh yeah, Beast mode is like.
00:00:49
Xochitl
Ohh, I went beast mode on it. Like hulking out or like also doing like top of your game at something.
00:00:59
Jack
Yeah. I I I see it a lot on like uh, because I.
00:01:04
Xochitl
Game forums.
00:01:06
Jack
Yeah. Game forums. Yeah, in gaming and also in like fitness.
00:01:11
Xochitl
Oh yeah, definitely.
00:01:13
Jack
Yeah, like like someone would say like.
00:01:16
Jack
Did you have?
00:01:16
Jack
A good workout today. And you’re like, yeah, I.
00:01:18
Jack
Went beast mode.
00:01:21
Jack
And it means they did like a very intense workout. Or I watch basketball highlights. I I love to watch, like NBA highlights and stuff like that. And sometimes the announcer will go whoa. LeBron James went beast mode on the other team or whatever.
00:01:41
Jack
And so it’s kind of like.
00:01:41
Xochitl
Mm-hmm.
00:01:44
Jack
Going above and beyond the normal expectation to like a very intense and focused mode of being, I guess what about in gaming? What what it, what does, what does it mean in that respect?
00:02:02
Xochitl
UM beast mode? Yeah, I think it’s just like it’s the same as, like with athletics, I honestly think.
00:02:08
Xochitl
That my generation sometimes sees like gaming as an extreme sport. Basically. Yeah, it is. And so it’s like you have competitions and all this stuff. And and I think that it’s basically it has the same exact meaning, but just applying it to gaming.
00:02:13
Jack
Yeah, it is now.
00:02:24
Jack
You’re just killing.
00:02:24
Jack
A lot of people, and you’re doing really, really well in the game and you, you’re basically you’re going to beat mode, yeah.
00:02:29
Xochitl
Killing it.
00:02:30
Xochitl
Yeah, going beast mode.
00:02:32
Jack
Yeah. OK. So there you go listeners, you can use Beast mode when you study English. Study real hard and go beast mode.
00:02:43
Jack
#2 this one I have never heard before, but I’m curious if you have bracketology.
00:02:53
Xochitl
Acology.
00:02:54
Jack
Bracketology yeah.
00:02:57
Xochitl
Rocketown energy. I don’t think I’ve ever. I haven’t heard of it. I haven’t heard of it.
00:03:02
Jack
Yeah, this is for this.
00:03:04
Jack
Is for people who are like.
00:03:04
Xochitl
Ohh I know what bracketology is. Ohh I do I do I just it just hit me. I remember all those YouTube videos that were trending in 2022 and 2023 where it would like put things into.
00:03:16
Xochitl
To brackets, so do like a BCS level or whatever. Brackets yours kind of. Is that what we’re talking about?
00:03:25
Jack
Exactly. And it’s.
00:03:26
Jack
It’s mostly comes from, like online gambling on sports or just people who love sports. So, you know, for example, there’s a the college basketball NCAA Tournament, which is happens in March. They call it March Madness.
00:03:45
Jack
And people love to try to predict the outcomes of the of the games. And so bracketology is the practice or study of predicting outcomes of elimination in tournaments or competitions. So.
00:04:04
Jack
Technology is the practice of that.
00:04:07
Jack
So they, you know, I mean it, it didn’t really need a name, you know, like filling out a bracket for trying to predict, which, you know, people will do it for the World Cup, for soccer and stuff like that too. But now it has a name. And so they call it bracketology.
00:04:14
Jack
MHM.
00:04:27
Jack
Which is kind of interesting I think.
00:04:29
Xochitl
OK, I remember actually doing this.
00:04:33
Xochitl
In Kentucky, like when I was growing up in high school during madness. Yeah. Yep. It’s a big basketball state.
00:04:35
Jack
Ohh big basketball state, yes.
00:04:41
Xochitl
During March Madness, which is like the kickoff of the basketball season, right, we would have these like paper like we would get these during school. They’d give us, like, uh, a paper with little brackets and you would put, like, the sports team, your sports teams or whatever on them they went.
00:04:56
Jack
Yeah. And what? What did you did you go based on like, the colors of the jerseys or something like I?
00:05:02
Jack
Want blue wind and.
00:05:02
Xochitl
I could. I honestly think I was. I honestly think I just like.
00:05:07
Xochitl
I have no idea. I think I just spaced out or I would just like write down some random stuff and then spend the extra time that everyone else was doing. It was like drawing on the back of the paper.
00:05:17
Jack
Right, right. Right, right. Yeah.
00:05:19
Jack
If you’re not into sports, I I think bracketology is probably maybe the most boring thing, but the the fact that, like now sports gambling has been legalized in.
00:05:31
Jack
Erica, I think a lot of people are really getting into, you know, brackets and sports and betting on games and things like that. And so because of gambling, I think that people are taking it much more seriously because there’s money involved. Right? And so, so they’ve actually.
00:05:48
Xochitl
Oh yeah.
00:05:51
Jack
Giving it a proper name. So there you go, listeners bracketology.
00:05:58
Jack
And our last one is chefs kiss.
00:06:05
Xochitl
Ohh chef because I is is the one I’m definitely familiar with. It’s like the if something’s perfect, it’s like ohh chefs kiss more and the person kisses their hand. Like when the chef makes a perfect meal. Yeah, that’s kind of what it is.
00:06:18
Jack
Yeah.
00:06:22
Jack
Right. Kissing the fingertips of your hand. Yeah. And it’s like, yeah, you know, like, yeah, the chefs, chefs kiss with, like, you’re, like, throwing a kiss kind of to the chef or celebrate.
00:06:34
Xochitl
You know, to the perfection of the dish or whatever you created or whatever.
00:06:38
Xochitl
Is going on.
00:06:39
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:06:40
발표자
Yeah, I’ve. I’ve never, I’ve.
00:06:42
Jack
Never really liked this one. I do use it sometimes when I am teaching a class and you know it’s Korean students and I tell them, like my favorite dish. I’ll say something like, you know.
00:06:58
Jack
I don’t know some kind of some kind of Korean dish, and I’ll and I’ll do the chefs kiss and to kind of emphasize how much I really love that dish and.
00:07:11
Jack
Everybody sees it’s.
00:07:12
Jack
Kind of a universal gesture, isn’t it?
00:07:15
Xochitl
Yeah, yeah, I think well, in the US, it certainly is. I don’t know if it is other places. Uh, yeah.
00:07:23
Jack
Yeah, my Korean students tend to understand when I do this, but.
00:07:27
Xochitl
Oh, when you do this as kids. Oh, interesting. I think because of the propagation of U.S. media culture, like our movies are seen all over the world. And our TV shows are seen all over the world. So I think because of that, a lot of our gestures are like adopted.
00:07:28
Jack
Yeah, yeah.
00:07:41
Xochitl
Into other cultures.
00:07:42
Jack
I totally agree.
00:07:43
Jack
With you, I was thinking of like ratatouille or something like that.
00:07:46
Xochitl
Yes, exactly. Ratatouille, I agree.
00:07:50
Xochitl
Yeah, alright. Listen as well if you know what her chefs kiss is, make sure to leave a comment down below at A-Z englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at AZ englishpodcast@gmail.com or join our WeChat once of groups to join the conversation. I would honestly love to hear if there is a similar gesture in your culture and I’ll see you guys next time. Bye.
00:08:10
발표자
OK.
00:08:11
Jack
Moi!
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