‘Nerdic’ is fastest-growing language – Telegraph
From dongles to mashups to RickRolling, ‘geek speak’ has become the fastest growing language in Europe as new words are invented to describe technological advances.
Experts claim about 100 new words are added to the language of technology, dubbed ‘Nerdic’, every year – three times the number of new words making it into the Oxford English Dictionary.
This year the number of new Nerdic words will rise to 200, according to research carried out by e-tailer pixmania.com to mark the 15th anniversary of the internet.
I don’t know about this. I found a very convincing argument against it here.