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Incredibly cool linguistics research by Dr Steph Kaepfer out of University of Canterbury! 🧪

A linguistics study in Antarctica "Antarctica, like outer-space, is known as an ICE environment – isolated, confined and extreme – meaning unlike other isolated communities, the rate of change for its vocabulary can be slower." SFF world-builders take note. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slangwww.theguardian.com Dr Steph Kaefer spent three weeks documenting unique colloquialisms on the frozen continent after newcomers were struck by the distinctive vocabulary

Boondoggle is still a very common term. It just isn't a smart thing to say outside of friends/family/co-workers. It means a mostly fun employer-paid trip with kind of a made-up reason for going. In other words, fraud.