Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/30/malarkey-schadenfreude-and-merriam-websters-other-words-of-the-year.html
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Kraken? Have I missed some Lovecraftian horror going on in 2020?
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Paging @Malarkey!
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Kraken has certainly been an important part of my 2020: 
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Sort of?
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It’s good to be back in fashion! 
And I did meet Joe Biden many times - I lived in Delaware for a while.
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“Irregardless” is a wrong word! It’s a double negative that means the exact opposite of what people mean when they say it! Hopefully that’s what people are learning when they look it up. They probably mean “irrespective” or just “regardless”.
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Gorn.
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Taken from your link:
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Always a favored word of mine; glad MW finally got hip.
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That’s… that’s not how dictionaries work
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Damn, it’s actually been in there since 1934! With the meaning of its opposite! oh well…
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Enough of “Schadenfreude”. Given the last four years, the word “fremdschämen” should be trending!
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