Every year the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) adds new words to its lexicon. The OED folks have created an interactive graphic that explains the process using 'OMG' as an example.
I'm not sure who they are aiming this at, but if they're trying to be trendy, they got it wrong. It's a classic example of sizzle rather than steak, smoke and mirrors signifying nothing.
There's about 20 sentences of text in the presentation, which I could normally have read in less than a minute, but it took about five minutes to scroll through the screens. The font is hard to read and on some screens was virtually unreadable because of the background graphic or screen colour. The animations were flashy but added nothing to the content.
Basically, it was a total waste of time. I expected better from the creators of the English language's primary resource.
If you want to see what words have been added to the OED over the past several years, you can go here.
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