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Machirulo, big data, cookie, nonbinary either homelessness… These are words that are completely integrated into our everyday vocabulary, but that until today were not accepted by the Real academy of the Spanish language. Or what is the same, until now their use was incorrect, and from the latest update they can be used without regrets. And those are not the only ones, since a large new batch of words and expressions will become integrated into the RAE with immediate effect.
This same morning the official ceremony took place, in which all the new words that the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE) has incorporated since this Tuesday have been announced, according to the update presented by the director of the Academy, Santiago Muñoz Machado. During the event, others quite established in the collective imagination were also mentioned, such as chundachunda –loud and aggressive music- or twerking, to designate “the dance that is performed to the rhythm of reggaeton, with erotic hip movements, and in which, when danced in pairs, the man usually stands behind the woman with their bodies very close together.”
In total, 4,381 operations have been incorporated, including new words, articles, variations or deletions, in this electronic version 23.7 of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE)in which synonyms and antonyms have also been integrated for the first time in history, since 42,882 articles in the dictionary contain them.
Some curiosities of new words highlighted by the director of the RAE in the presentation press conference have been updates of terms already integrated into the dictionary. For example crackwhich now also happens to be the meaning of a person who stands out especially in something, or Indian, a term that the Guatemalan academy has asked to modify so that it does not have the pejorative character that it has acquired. American meanings also come into play, such as Pure Lifecoming from Costa Rica.
New terms have also arrived within popular culture. Thus, terms such as sound engineer, short film director, microphone operator and Oscar winner have been incorporated to refer to the person who is awarded the Oscar award. Others are more striking, such as kryptonite, the element that emerged from the comics of the superhero Superman and which will now be used correctly to designate those people or things that neutralize or diminish the main qualities of something or someone.
Information prepared by EFE
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