Yes, it’s weird word time once again.
At least, this is a weird word for us.
If we are to believe the Urban Dictionary there are some people who actually use this word.
‘Yassification’ means ‘the act of making something better, especially more visually appealing.’
Specifically, it appears to mean Photoshopping a picture to make it more attractive.
So, when there was that furore about Kate, the Princess of Wales, ‘photoshopping’ a family snap, in the terms of the trendy she was being accused of ‘yassification.’
(Mind you, those critics were quick to swallow their words when we learned that Kate is dealing with cancer!)
According to the Urban Dictionary ‘yassification’ turned up for the first time in December 2021, so it’s still a very new word.
According to Dictionary.com the noun ‘yassification’ developed from the earlier verb ‘to yassify.’
But the dates don’t match—because the verb is recorded from February 2022, three months after the noun.
That’s the problem with trying to keep track of these newly invented words, no one really has any idea where they sprang from or when.
In fact, I sometimes suspect these websites are just having us on (pulling our legs) when they talk about some new verbal inventions.
Can you imagine anyone, anywhere, ever using a word such as ‘yassification’?
Case made!
These trendy bits of made-up language have the life span of the average fruit fly.
By the way, the life span of the Drosophila melanogaster (or common fruit fly) is about 50 days.
Not enough time to write your memoirs really.
But still longer (I suggest) than some of the hyper-trendy, super-cool new words invented by websites.
Of which I offer as an example this one: ‘yassification.’
According to Dictionary.com “yassification and yassify are also used more generally to describe something that has become better than it previously was or to humorously claim that something is a more attractive or better version of something else.”
Humorously?
I see, this is a funny word then?
A bit like ‘discombobulate’?
That sort of thing?
Then why am I not laughing?
Really, this whole business of websites inventing new words and then claiming they are being used has got right out of hand.
To those people who are doing this, all I can say: stop it!
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