From noun to verb, emojis to internet slang, where will words go in 2016?

We’ll have to ‘scope’ you, says the doctor as she ‘inputs’ her patient’s answers. The medical profession has lunged from noun to verb well before technology will make ‘Periscope it’ the new ‘Google it’.Did you remember to #hashtag it and tag it to @iamsrk or @narendramodi so their devotees can start a forest fire?If you didn't, Tweeple will throw shade (put down).LDL has nothing to do with cholestorol, it just means you don’t want to put anything on paper so Lets Discuss Live.And, so it goes, disfigurement of language is the cool code of tomorrow.Oxford Dictionaries, which headlines its online video channel ‘Language Matters’ nominated an emoji as word of the year. Translated, it is five words: “face with tears of joy”.Since 2004, Oxford Dictionaries has made this selection into an annual rite of passage for “a word or expression chosen to reflect the passing year in language.”The 2015 shortlist:ad blocker, noun: A piece of software designed to prevent advertisements from appearing on a web page.Brexit, noun: A term for the potential or hypothetical departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union.Dark Web, noun: The part of the World Wide Web that is only accessible by means of special software, allowing users and website operators to remain anonymous or untraceable.lumbersexual, noun: a young urban man who cultivates an appearance and style of dress (typified by a beard and checked shirt) suggestive of a rugged outdoor lifestyle.on fleek, adjective (usually in phrase on fleek): extremely good, attractive or stylish.refugee, noun: A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster.sharing economy, noun: An economic system in which assets or services are shared between private individuals, either free or for a fee, typically by means of the Internet.they (singular), pronoun: Used to refer to a person of unspecified sex.“You can see how traditional alphabet scripts have been struggling to meet the rapid-fire, visually focused demands of 21st century communication,” said Casper Grathwohl, president Oxford Dictionaries.Struggling?Mangling is more like it.Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism. The top isms to earn high traffic spikes and big bumps in lookups on the dictionary company's website in 2015 over the year before are socialism, fascism, racism, feminism, communism, capitalism and terrorism.Dictionary.com had recently ushered in “fleek” ( stylishly groomed) and “yaaas” — which is yes with three a’s instead of ‘e’ and “feels” (feelings) to its new coinages. Look at the example dictionary.com uses for feels: Informal. strong, often positive feelings: That song gives me feels. I have so many feels right now.Merriam-Webster had officially welcomed “wtf” and “nsfw” ( not safe for work) into its fold.In a galaxy far far away, when nouns weren’t nouned, there were 24 words that meant something totally different than they do now.“The lifecycles of words are infinite but the cycle has changed, and it’s now quite quick, says Katherine Martin of Oxford University Press.How internet is talking is what is forcing online slang even into dictionaries that trace roots back to London in the 19th century.Facebook has confirmed that “LOL” is already in decline and Ha Ha tells people you’re young.For those with a love of minutiae, Oxford tells us why refugees are worse off than migrants. Migrants are those who want something from us (Europe) and refugees are fleeing something horrible.What words will catch on in 2016, where will they come from? Most likely they’ll begin in black American and gay groups, in hip hop music and meander into the mainstream, says The Economist.On music, what about a guitar chord from long ago that threads the most shocking images this year?I’m leaving on a jet plane….don’t know when I’ll be back again, a John Denver 1966 classic, became a haunting template for love and loss in the skies.A hashtagged plane number.What a terrible thought. Does that give you the feels?Noun-No.