A new word for me = oomf

On Monday afternoon, I was reading online when I ran across a new word (and then another).  Wait, let's do this one word at a time.  I found "oomf" first, HERE.  It's a word from Gen Z.  Oh, you want to know what it means?  It's supposed to be all lower-case, and it means "one of my followers."  I am already behind the times, since it has apparently been "out there" since 2015 (at least among folks a lot younger than I am).

Here's a quote from that article, and it has another word that's new to me:

Jessica Rett, a University of California, Los Angeles, professor in linguistics, said that every generation innovates language, and they do it for roughly two reasons: to obfuscate and to innovate.  "They don’t want us to know what they’re talking about," Rett said. "And it’s really just a way of sort of setting themselves apart from old people like me."  Rett explained that "one of my friends" is also a pseudo-partitive that eliminates "the possible presupposition that there’s only one friend that you’ve got," which may be particularly important for younger people to signal.

Okay, what is a "partitive"?  Wikipedia has the answer for me, HERE.  For example:

Partitive = "three of my friends"

Pseudo-partitive = "three friends of mine"

 

On a book blog, maybe I should use books as the subject (it's also the second example on Wikipedia):

Partitive = "many of those books"

Pseudo-partitive = "many books"

I'll never say "pseudo-partitive" in real life!