Is the Back-To-School Necklace a Cry For Help?

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The popularity of back-to-school necklace is a worrying trend given the high rate of youth suicide. This article looks at the origin and meaning of this trending topic to see if it is a cry for help.

A pearl necklace is a slang term that refers to sexual innuendo whereby a man ejaculates semen on his partner’s neck or chest. The term is so called because the drops of semen resemble the appearance of a necklace of pearls. The term is most often associated with oral sex but may also result from masturbation or other forms of intercourse. It is a common practice among men who are titillated by the erogenous zone.

In contrast to traditional dictionaries that rely on expert review for inclusion, UD allows any user to submit an entry describing a word or phrase and describing its usage. As a consequence, UD can capture new words and their variants quickly. For example, a definition of selfie was submitted in 2009 and there are now 76 entries for the string selfie (see Figure 2 for a plot over time). UD is also useful because it often provides social context that is lacking from official dictionary entries.

Because UD is so user-driven, it can also expose new meanings and usages of existing words. This makes it an excellent source of data for lexicography and is used by researchers in this field to unearth indexical meanings, a process that has been made easier thanks to the datestamp that UD gives each entry. According to McCulloch, UD is particularly valuable for this purpose because of the speed at which new terms enter and exit the cultural landscape.

Another advantage of UD is that it contains a lot of humorous or offensive words and phrases that might not make it into a formal dictionary. In particular, UD has become a repository for adolescent grossout humor about women’s bodies (e.g. twatopotamus) and about sexual practices that are considered to be taboo or inappropriate (e.g. penis McFlurry).

UD is also useful for developing natural language processing systems that have to deal with informal and non-standard language and slang. The dataset that UD provides has been used to train several text normalization systems for Twitter, for example. [24] In general, UD has been shown to be more effective in this regard than other resources such as the Freebase or Wiktionary.

However, UD is not without its problems. The large number of slang and abbreviations used in UD can make it difficult to discern whether a given word or phrase has genuine popular usage or if it is merely being used for humorous purposes or is simply the product of a cackling imagination. As a result, there is some evidence that some of the terms that only appear in UD are not in use at all (see Table 3). In contrast, many entries that are unique to UD have genuine widespread usage, such as loml (defined as ‘acronym for Love of My Life’) and broham (defined as a close friend, compadre or smoking/drinking buddy).