Film by Varvara Tokareva. Audio: Google Translate. The process of making the installation was recorded in Studio #5, Department of Art, at the Art-Sociology Building, UMD, from the 19th to the 25th of September 2022. The artist is grateful for the help of Trevon Coleman, Kevin Gomes, Justin Strom, Marilena Draganescu, Shannon Collis, and Farid Shiafetdinov.
Merriam-Webster officially added 54 new entries to its dictionary in September 2022. These “new” words represent the flexibility and elasticity of human speech and show how the English language is changing as well as society, culture, and ideas. Perhaps these new words are the brightest examples of having an “elastic mind.”

Referring to this record, I have focused on these new words, writing down all, repeating each one on a separate sheet of paper, and creating visualizations of the updates. Fancy abbreviations, web slang, and foreign sayings apparently have been used often enough to be fixed in one of the world’s most popular dictionaries. 
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