“Busification” has become the word of 2024 in Ukraine

In 2024, Ukrainians chose “busification” as the word of the year. He writes about it UNN with reference to the dictionary of modern Ukrainian language and slang “Myslovo”.

The dictionary of modern Ukrainian language and slang “Myslovo” chose the word “busification” as the word of the year 2024. The neologism, which denotes forced mobilization under an accelerated procedure, was in the center of public attention in the past year. The term indicates problems with mobilization, when quantitative indicators prevail over qualitative indicators, and human rights (sometimes along with common sense) take a back seat

Other words also claimed the word of the year:

Northwest Territories (voluntarily leaving a part) – due to inefficient organization and management of the troops, in particular, busification, the SZH acquired a massive and threatening character last year;

Kursk operation – as the most successful Ukrainian military operation last year, which shook the world information space and confirmed the subjectivity of Ukraine;

fatigue – as a natural result of the war of attrition waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine;

talks – the desire for negotiations with the aim of achieving a truce or freeze as a result of war exhaustion;

MSEK (medical and social expert commission) – scandal with MSEK and prosecutors as an indicator of institutionalized corruption in Ukraine;

populism – in connection with the “national cashback” and “thousand Zelenskyi” programs and the beginning of talks about the elections;

Magura – a marine drone, as a symbol of the development of unmanned systems, which changed the balance of power in the Black Sea;

lalohesia (use of profanity to relieve pain or stress) – the word became one of the most visited in the dictionary, which illustrates the situation of normalization of the use of profanity during the war;

Quadcopters (representatives of the children’s subculture who copy animals) – this trend has become the most noticeable cultural trend of the past year in Ukraine.

We will remind

The dictionary of modern Ukrainian language and slang “Myslovo” chose the word of the year 2023 – “mobilization”.