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Word suggestion: uber
« on: March 01, 2012, 11:51:12 PM »
I've tried playing this word a few times (obviously I keep forgetting that it doesn't count).  It's used reasonably commonly in popular media and among young people as an adverb or adjective meaning extreme or excessive (e.g. 'playing word games is uber cool')  It's also listed in a number of online dictionaries, though it probably hasn't made it into the Oxford just yet.  Even so, I think it's worth including as a rare word. 

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Re: Word suggestion: uber
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2012, 01:09:51 AM »
It's certainly used in the U.S. too - even though it's German, I don't think it's all that rare here.

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Re: Word suggestion: uber
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2012, 01:43:54 AM »
I tried to get uber accepted in the past:
https://theforum.lexigame.com/index.php/topic,172.0.html

So did a non-amos:
https://theforum.lexigame.com/index.php/topic,253.0.html

Maybe we were ahead of our time and yours will be the one that gets it accepted. :D

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Re: Word suggestion: uber
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2012, 09:13:53 AM »
Deutchland, Deutchland........... :-V
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Re: Word suggestion: uber
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2012, 04:38:04 PM »
....just don't mention the war.
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Re: Word suggestion: uber
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2012, 03:50:36 PM »
Quite a few dictionaries list uber- as a combining form or prefix. Hence, it can be attached to a word with a hyphen, as in the following, from the magazine Backpacker in 2011:

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During summer in the Smokies (p. 90), the uber-popular Cades Cove Road becomes a cyclist-only loop twice a week before 10 a.m.

Or, it can be joined seamlessly to a word, to form a new, un-hyphenated, word, as in this, from Harper's Magazine, 2003:

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Frank suggests we go to a west-side uberhip bar and restaurant called L2.

Of course, such usage doesn't qualify uber to be accepted as a word in its own right.

However, there is now at least one dictionary, Wiktionary, that lists it also as a separate word: an adjective meaning "Super; high-level; high-ranking" and an adverb meaning "Very; super". Wiktionary supplies a number of supporting quotes for both senses. (Click on their "quotations" linkl after each definition.)

Other examples are not hard to find. For example, the Lonely Planet guide to Turkey (2009): "Luckily, thanks largely to the uber cool cocktail bar, this place delivers."

So I'm satisfied uber is now widely enough used to be accepted.
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Re: Word suggestion: uber
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2012, 12:44:15 AM »
Yay!