Urban Dictionary has helped me with so many words over the years.
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now that Wiktionary has the definition of hot carl, urban dictionary is redundant π
Possibly misapplied from hot carl "a cheap red wine enema, usually involving Carlo Rossi Merlot".
w-what
Maybe you've heard of boofing? There's a supreme court justice who I hear was a big fan in college..
If street knowledge is a must, you can suck on Deez Nuts
Somthing somthing skibbity toilet blue waffels?
I'm a middle-aged nerd so I have zero clue what the hell any of this means and I refuse to find out
blue waffle was around the 90s.
It's a picture of diseased feminine genitalia
Must be a repressed memory, then
Urban dictionary only works when the people using the terms go there to define them and upvoted the definitions.
And young people nowadays don't do anything online if it isn't an app.
The iPad baby generation is shockingly technically useless
Tbf I thought urban dictionary had an app
Surprisingly-maturely themed
I keep seeing stupid, seemingly very person-specific definitions get the votes, stuff like "John: a really sexy, clever boy that all the girls want to be with"
It was about to be the sickest rap single in a decade.
what would wikipedia be?
This is a buzzfeed comic, so the source for most of their content.
I dunno but it's cartoon better have a little tin cup and be begging - they are aggressive AF with trying to get donations. In general, but especially if you ever give them money.
They sorta have to be aggressive because it's damn near impossible to get people to pay for online services nowadays. Everybody expects to get everything for free, but also nobody wants to see ads (for a good reason too, mind you.)
Yeah, I wish they would push a different model. I think the charity model is likely unsustainable long term. Quality contributions to the information should buy you some access and perhaps everyone gets access to some basic info on entries but more in depth data requires a micropayment perhaps.
It would get infested with bots writing articles and other bots upvoting the quality status. The people with resources to do that wouldn't have any interest in telling the truth.
Unfortunately that'd probably kill it ded; like I said, people are really loath to pay for online services.
Kagi been doing well. I think tides are shifting
PAYWALL WIKIPEDIA?!
How dare you sir!
They take heat for fundraising like theyβre on the edge although they have full coffers. Hopefully itβs sustainable!
3 nerds in a trenchcoat arguing about sources
"Previously Known As Sweary Mary's Dictionary Of Filth", lul
Especially considering urban dictionary consists almost entirely of shock humor and isn't really a good resource for you know, actually understanding people.
A thesaurus is just a dictionary remixed
Dictionaries have definitions. I think most thesauruses are just lists of words