The word you keep hearing is older than the internet

The word you keep hearing is older than the internet

Slang has a bad reputation for being disposable, and most of it is, but not all of it.

Some of the words that look like they were invented last Tuesday have been around for a century, and they were not invented by teenagers. They were invented by people who needed a word for something specific and did not have one.

Why dictionaries of slang exist

A normal dictionary answers a question you already know how to ask. You have a word, you want to know what it means and when to use it.

A slang lexicon answers the opposite question. You have a situation, you do not have the word, and you need to know which of the three words for it is the one that will sound right rather than funny.

That is a different job, and it is why these entries carry the origin and the register rather than just a definition. Taboords does that across gírias, siglas, relationship terms, psychology, subcultures and Japanese culture, at https://taboords.com.

The other kind of research

There is a second category of reference that people assume is about theory and is actually about decisions.

Supplement and training data is the example. The marketing copy on a tub of powder is a claim. The interesting question is what the actual data says when you line several of them up against the same criteria.

Treino is that kind of base, with supplement comparisons, exercise references and calculators arranged for practical choices rather than for browsing, at https://treinando.org.

Kunibetsu is the price side of the same question, comparing the real cost of the same thing across countries, at https://kunibetsu.com.

The pattern in both is the same. Take the thing that is usually argued about in scattered places, write down what the criteria are, and let people look it up.

And the one that is just useful

The third one is the least intellectual and the most used.

When something has to be done locally and you do not know who does it, the hardest part is not finding a service. It is finding out whether there is one at all, and whether it answers the phone.

It is the kind of page that sounds too simple to be useful and then turns out to save twenty minutes every time, which over a year is a lot of twenty minutes.