Words Of The Year: Goblin Mode | Gaslighting | Homer

Uh, does this say anything good about us as people?

… the fuck?

Oxford: “Goblin Mode” as Word of the Year

It basically means being a slob and giving up, apparently. It’s now the word of the year.

As some erudite lady explained to The New York Times:

“New words catch on when they capture our imagination, or fill a hole with a word for a concept we need to express,” Katherine Connor Martin, product director at Oxford Languages, said in a telephone interview. “What ‘goblin mode’ tells me is it resonated with the feeling that the pandemic is over, but we’re still grappling with it. Do we want to go back to the notions of respectability of the prepandemic world?”

If you wanted to understand the origins:

The precise origins of “goblin mode” are murky. It popped up on Twitter as early as 2009, according to Oxford…