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- You ever go goblin mode?

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No, just me?

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(pop)

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All right then.

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Well, this is awkward since
the phrase "goblin mode"

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is Oxford University Press's
2022 Word of the Year.

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Oxford University Press, the publishers

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behind Oxford English
dictionary define goblin mode

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as a type of behavior
which is unapologetically

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self-indulgent, lazy,
slovenly, or greedy, typically

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in a way that rejects social
norms or expectations.

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Sounds like a Friday night

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after you get a couple
drinks in me, hey yo.

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Oxford said in a press
release that the use

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of goblin mode can be
traced back to 2009 Twitter,

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which feels like a completely
different lifetime,

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but the phrase really went
viral this past spring.

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An article published by the
Guardian argues that the idea

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of goblin mode actually
took root during the onset

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of the Covid 19 pandemic,
when we were all locked inside

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watching Tiger King and Outer
Banks in our sweatpants.

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Kari Paul, the author of that article

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says that the term embraces comforts

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of depravity, and represents
a complete lack of aesthetic.

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How poetic is that?

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Again, that sounds like Saturday morning

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after that Friday night out.

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I'll stop now.

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Ben Zimmer, a linguist,
writer and lexicographer said

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in Oxford's press release,
"Goblin mode really does speak

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to the times and the zeitgeist

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and it is certainly a 2022 expression.

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People are looking at
social norms in new ways.

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It gives people the license
to ditch social norms

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and embrace new ones."

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But Kevin, I hear you screaming.

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Goblin mode can't be word of the year.

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It's not a fucking word.

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Astute observation.

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Well, "Word of the Year" is
actually a bit of a misnomer

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since word of the Year doesn't
actually have to be a word.

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- The Oxford Word of the Year
does not have to be a word,

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a single word.

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Cause we challenged on that.

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- Very good point.

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(women laugh)

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- Yes, it can be an expression
or more than one word.

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- As the year comes to an end, I, for one

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will not be leaving my days of
going goblin mode behind me,

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especially as I wait
patiently for the news

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on whether or not student
loans are being forgiven.

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