Vocabulary Spotlight | 3 Recently Added Words to Webster's Dictionary

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:00:00:01JackWelcome 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 2023.00:00:19JackAnd so so the first one, I have no idea what this means here. Uh finsta finsta.00:00:28XochitlOhh a Finn star. You you don't know what this.00:00:32JackIt sounds like some kind of.00:00:33JackTax thing that I have to file or something.00:00:36XochitlNo, no, it's a it's a an insta but for like friends, it's like a private insta which sounds kind of weird.00:00:47XochitlLike friend in store or something, but it's a private insta.00:00:52XochitlCause 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.00:01:11XochitlInstagram is run, which is kind of for like likes and clout and stuff you.00:01:15JackOhh so like on Facebook I because I'm so old. I use Facebook. Uh. Mostly. Uhm I can.00:01:23JackI can make my page public or private, right? I can.00:01:26발표자 3MM.00:01:27JackSo 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.00:01:35JackAction 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.00:01:36XochitlYes.00:01:56JackYour regular Instagram.00:01:58XochitlYes.00:01:59JackOK, alright. OK, fenced. Uh, it says here that it stands for fake.00:02:00발표자 3Yeah.00:02:04JackThe.00:02:05JackLike fake and Insta finsta.00:02:07XochitlInstagram, huh?00:02:08JackBut maybe you're you said friend Insta. I think that makes more sense to me. Finsta like friend and Insta Finsta.00:02:17XochitlNow I'm gonna Google it cause.00:02:20XochitlWhat 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.00:02:30JackYeah, I mean, that's exactly what you said.00:02:30발표자 3Usually.00:02:31XochitlFrom the accounts followers to close friends. Yeah. So that's what I thought, friend. Instant. Not fake insta.00:02:36XochitlYeah.00:02:39JackYeah. Well, we're we're quibbling over the portmanteau, but ultimately it doesn't matter. The meaning is exactly the same. Yeah, since OK.00:02:44XochitlBut the meaning is the same. The meaning is.00:02:48XochitlYes.00:02:51JackAll right, so #2, the second one is grammable.00:02:59XochitlUh grammable means able to post on Instagram.00:03:05JackOK.00:03:06XochitlLike 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.00:03:23JackOK.00:03:25JackSo I should I ask my wife, honey?00:03:30JackAm I grammable? Is my face grammable? Yeah, I don't. I probably don't want to know the answer right to that.00:03:36XochitlYou 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.00:03:48JackYeah, 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.00:04:00JackDid the way the sun is hitting the mountaintop or whatever? Yeah.00:04:01XochitlYes.00:04:05XochitlYes, I think it means picture picturesque, you know, picturesque. Like is it picturesque basically.00:04:08JackPicturesque, yeah.00:04:12JackGrammable. Yeah, that's funny. I've just. I've never heard this before, grammable. But it it makes a lot of sense.00:04:19XochitlI haven't really.00:04:21XochitlI 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.00:04:41XochitlFor what it means, but honestly, I've never heard anyone kind of say.00:04:43XochitlIt in real.00:04:44XochitlLife so.00:04:45발표자 4I could the way.00:04:46JackI 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.00:04:52JackThe 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.00:05:02XochitlRight, 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.00:05:03JackInspected.00:05:10발표자 3OK.00:05:12JackOK, 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.00:05:27JackI think it's it's kind of applicable to like these days, like how people are feeling rage quit.00:05:35XochitlOhh 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.00:05:47JackYou throw the remote control.00:05:55XochitlLagging 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.00:06:04XochitlYou were in a very high, like.00:06:08XochitlIt's got to work out kind of mindset, you know, so I think.00:06:10JackA fit of anger or frustration. Something like that.00:06:13XochitlYes, 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.00:06:29JackYeah.00:06:29JackYeah. 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.00:06:29XochitlI am.00:06:50JackRight.00:06:51XochitlYes.00:06:52JackYeah.00:06:53발표자 4Yeah. Have you ever rage quit anything before?00:06:57XochitlI 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.00:07:01JackMm-hmm.00:07:08발표자 4Yeah, I'm a I'm a I'm a quiet quitter. I think there's another. Yeah.00:07:12XochitlI'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.00:07:31XochitlBasically.00:07:33XochitlKind of quit or get fired without having to quit.00:07:38JackYeah, 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.00:07:48JackA lot of.00:07:49JackLike customer service jobs, when I was young, you know, when I was in high school and college and you know, I would quite quit.00:07:58JackYou know, basically like mentally I'm. I'm done working.00:08:03JackSix 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?00:08:16XochitlYeah, 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.00:08:16JackJust enough to not get fired.00:08:32JackRight.00:08:34XochitlNo. No way was I gonna be sitting there working my **** off. It was just a no brainer. I quite quit immediately.00:08:42JackYeah, 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.00:08:51발표자 3Yes.00:08:54JackIs 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.00:09:01발표자 3Yep.00:09:10JackOK.00:09:11XochitlReally.00:09:12JackYeah, that. That's our last one for today.00:09:15XochitlOh great all.00:09:16XochitlRight. Well, if you guys have any questions about these or you have any?00:09:19XochitlQuestions about other new.00:09:20XochitlWords that you would like us to define for you, make sure to leave us a comment down below at A-Z englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at AZ [email protected] and join our WeChat WhatsApp groups to join the conversation. 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