Seeking smexy new words with which to woo your bae, amuse your squad and generally #BreakTheInternet . . . all in 140 characters or less? Then, worry not, ridicheads Inspired by a slew of tasty new abbreviations - currently washing tsunami-like across emails, texts, Twitter, Facebook and social media of every description - comes the super on-fleek second edition of Balthazar Cohen's Totes Ridictionary. Following the same format that made Cohen's original so cray-cray presh, Totes Ridictionary 2 is packed with even more hilar illustrations, internet-addicted pets and smart-phone-savvy pop art than its predecessor - as well as the imagined Twitter conversations of history and literature's most argumentative couples. It also features Cohen's classic glossary of terms, but beefed up with added etymological goodness (much like Stephen Fry before he gave up carbs) and all the hottest new lingo online, to help you sort your FOMO from your YOLO, your bae just any old ratchet, how to be an unreadable reader - and just when you should be bidding Felisha, 'bye'. Just when you thought it was safe to go back online, Totes Ridictionary 2 takes a second, totally ridiculous look at what happens when language and technology collide in an ever-changing world - whilst helping you keep your Twitter game stronger than ever.


Balthazar Cohen is a blogger and aspiring linguist based in New York. Rather than get irritated by the ＂totes ridic＂ phenomenon, like lots of people do, he decided to write The Totes Ridictionary, and turn his amusement at the online world’s disregard for written English into cold, hard cash. That cash was quickly spent during an epic drinking binge in Williamsburg.