The most recent updates to the Oxford English Dictionary include the addition of internet acronyms such as OMG, LOL and the like. “Wassup” also made the list, according to the Huff Post.

As an English major and a professional writer, I should probably be a bit indignant. Yet  as a user of an everyday language peppered with its own set of, like total, generational linguistic tics, I should perhaps be pleased that the OED is dynamic and expansive enough to give a nod to everybody’s English. I guess I just feel sort of  : | about it all.

I have officially ditched the prehistoric Busy Pen website for the fluid and flexible fun of a WordPress-based site built on the Thesis theme. Now that I’ve made the leap, I just have to figure out how to swim.