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		<title>Congratulations, Neckbeards: Oxford Adds &#8216;Friend Zone&#8217; to the Dictionary</title>

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<p>Congratulations to every Redditor who has complained about a female friend not giving him the sexual attention to which his penis entitles him: Oxford Dictionaries has <a href="http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/02/odo-february-2013-update/">immortalized</a> your horrifying plight with the official addition of "friend zone" into the lexicon.</p>
<p><!--more-->According to Oxford, friend zone is <a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/friend+zone">defined</a> as:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>noun</em><br />
<em> informal</em><br />
a situation in which a platonic relationship exists between two people, one of whom has an undeclared romantic or sexual interest in the other:<br />
<em>I always wind up in the friend zone, watching them pursue other guys</em></p></blockquote>
<p>That's not the only internetty word added to the bunch, though. There's also <a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/tweetable">tweetable</a> ("suitable for posting on the social media site Twitter"), <a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/dumbphone">dumphone</a> ("a basic mobile phone that lacks the advanced functionality characteristic of a smartphone") and <a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/range+anxiety">range anxiety</a> ("worry on the part of a person driving an electric car that the battery will run out of power before the destination or a suitable charging point is reached").</p>
<p>That last one is sure to send Elon Musk into a tizzy.</p>
<p>Pandering to the Internet has become something of a pasttime for Oxford. Afterall, this is the company that made "GIF" the <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/11/gif-beats-out-yolo-to-become-the-oxford-english-dictionarys-2012-word-of-the-year/">2012 word of the year</a>.</p>
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<p>Congratulations to every Redditor who has complained about a female friend not giving him the sexual attention to which his penis entitles him: Oxford Dictionaries has <a href="http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/02/odo-february-2013-update/">immortalized</a> your horrifying plight with the official addition of "friend zone" into the lexicon.</p>
<p><!--more-->According to Oxford, friend zone is <a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/friend+zone">defined</a> as:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>noun</em><br />
<em> informal</em><br />
a situation in which a platonic relationship exists between two people, one of whom has an undeclared romantic or sexual interest in the other:<br />
<em>I always wind up in the friend zone, watching them pursue other guys</em></p></blockquote>
<p>That's not the only internetty word added to the bunch, though. There's also <a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/tweetable">tweetable</a> ("suitable for posting on the social media site Twitter"), <a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/dumbphone">dumphone</a> ("a basic mobile phone that lacks the advanced functionality characteristic of a smartphone") and <a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/range+anxiety">range anxiety</a> ("worry on the part of a person driving an electric car that the battery will run out of power before the destination or a suitable charging point is reached").</p>
<p>That last one is sure to send Elon Musk into a tizzy.</p>
<p>Pandering to the Internet has become something of a pasttime for Oxford. Afterall, this is the company that made "GIF" the <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/11/gif-beats-out-yolo-to-become-the-oxford-english-dictionarys-2012-word-of-the-year/">2012 word of the year</a>.</p>
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