Le Petit Robert catches up. The dictionary’s Twitter account recalled, in a post published this Friday, August 26, that the famous dictionary now includes the word “instagramer” and its feminine derivative in its latest edition published on May 12, 2022.
New technologies gain in vocabulary
Reflecting the growing place of digital, Le Petit Robert 2023 has been enriched with many words specific to technology and the Internet. The words “grazer”, which designate “a thief who catches his victims on the Internet”, “digital safe”, “cyber espionage” or even “NFT” thus join the list of new definitions that appear in the dictionary.
Many of them refer to news from the last two years and, except for a few, are everyday words that have appeared in the language very recently. Already, in 2017, the terms “Youtubeur”, which designate “a person who publishes his own videos (sketches, tutorials, etc.) on the YouTube site”, “geeker” or even “uberizeIt made a notable dictionary entry favored in this by the rise of the web and social media.
In 2019, it was virtual currencies, “cryptocurrencies”, the “darknet” and “cyberjihadism” that illustrated the new uses and profound transformations of the digital world. The 2023 edition of the best-selling book also incorporates lesser-known but buzzwords such as “phishing” (an Internet fraud technique aimed at obtaining sensitive information to impersonate the victim).
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