Word of the Year 2007
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Also has a sublime quality, and begs sub-crime/subcriminal etc.
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Yeah, sub-prime gets my vote as well.
It's a versatile term, a useful metaphor,, and it also stands as a symbol of unending human folly.
I mean, who would have thought lending money to people who were bad credit risks would be so, umm, risky?
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One word that's been making me grind my teeth is "refute", used in the sense of "repudiate" or "deny" rather than "disprove."
I'm not sure if that's my nomination though. When do nominations close?
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But dyslek.... dislyx... that word has to get an honourable mention. Have always thought that using it to dyscribe a condition that makes reading and/or spelling diffiicult is a measure of human perversity.
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State the nature of your disabiltiy:
Dys...
Sorry I can't even spell dioharreehahahaha - as in verbal. I'll shut up now. -
Key too
Official National Party Policy.
e.g. Labour will continue to follow an independent foreign policy. Key too.
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I'm not sure if that's my nomination though. When do nominations close?
End of the week-ish. It would be helpful if someone could list the contenders in a post here (I'm going to be kind of consumed by Thursday's party and am likely to be unwell on Friday) and then I'll get a Survey Monkey page up to take votes.
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Thus far we have:
its Business Time
rotation
reconditioning
Rotation and Reconditioning
Carbon
sausage-wallet
Migration (as in bubble)
Carbonista
Terrorista
Urewera
Te Qaeda
robust
random
Guybrarian
Coskriedictory
mum and dad investors
broconomy
Sustainability
Wayne Barnes
versing
World Class
Fizzer
Créditos de carbono/carbocred
Munter and Cheryl
Tuhoe
going forward
Theatre
The Beltway
Stupidiocracy
underwhelming
Common sense
Vindication
Love-Truncheon
Encrapt
demagogracy
nearmissedness
Dyslexia
proportion
Jaffanese
Craft2.0
I-bicycle
sub-prime
refute
Key tooApologies to anyone I missed.
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My entry for most hated phrase is "World Class".
I missed this when Ben first listed it, but this is one of my favourite love-to-hate phrases.
My theory is that it's actually used when someone is comparing New Zealand with Australia but doesn't want to it look like petty trans-Tasman rivalry.
"Queen Street will soon have world-class paving stones along the footpath, just like in Sydney and Melbourne!"
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Thus far we have:
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Can I please nominate "Apostrophe-catastrophe" for word of the year?
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Can I please nominate "Apostrophe-catastrophe" for word of the year?
I's that cau'se you luuurrrvvveee the apo'strophe's or becau'se you hate's them?
Personally, I wouldn't shop at a greengrocer's that didn't have at least three gratuitous apostrophes - anything less shows a lack of professional pride in a historic mercantile tradition.
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Nice one Garth, I like sub-prime too.
It puts me in mind of our shift from a basic Sky TV package to Freeview earlier this year. Once we'd plugged everything back in I realised that we were now in a sub-prime state. Or perhaps that should be sans-Prime...
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Great list, Graeme.
How could we have forgotten (so far)...
xtra service
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And three more words or phrases which I think indicate nothing more than the paucity of the speaker's vocabulary
yeah right
gutted
stoked
I would be delighted if I never, ever hear or read them again.
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xtra service is very salt, but I think the sentiment is covered by sub-prime.
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Godwin, the verb, more by virtue of demonstration than usage. There was someone at the EFB protest wielding a swastika banner; it feels to me that NZ politics has become so rabidly polarised, and the media get so histrionic, that every little argument gets ramped up to a godwin stalemate really quickly now.
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For those seeking inspiration, here's the Google zeitgeist for New Zealand in 2007.
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Godwin, the verb, more by virtue of demonstration than usage. There was someone at the EFB protest wielding a swastika banner; it feels to me that NZ politics has become so rabidly polarised, and the media get so histrionic, that every little argument gets ramped up to a godwin stalemate really quickly now.
Mr Litterick of the Fundy Post has an intriguing account of Protest Saturday in Auckland.
He goes to these things so you don't have to.
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@ deborah
yeah right
someone you know tried to sneak that into a cabinet paper.
got pretty close, apparently.
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'Bombshell'. Something that a person drops, causing all manner of shock and surprise.
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Mr Litterick of the Fundy Post has an intriguing account of Protest Saturday in Auckland.
He goes to these things so you don't have to.
Interesting how recent events have brought out both the far-left and far-right elements in society. Maybe they all could do well to browse a Cronulla Beach real estate brochure or two.
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'Bombshell'. Something that a person drops, causing all manner of shock and surprise.
In the context of the terrorism business, shouldn't that be "Bombershell"?
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I'm 100% behind sub prime. It sums up a series of sporting achievements (rugby, cricket, netball, that stupid thing with the sailing boats), legislative attempts (EFB, Section 59 repeal), the actions of various people around October 15th.
It just feels like the year that "wasn't really".
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Mr Litterick of the Fundy Post has an intriguing account of Protest Saturday in Auckland.
It reads like a sadomasochistic extravaganzas might be on the cards.
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Graeme - you missed Coldplay, but that's ok because Clocked is better.
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gutted
You know what's the weirdest thing about "gutted"? Some people spell it "guttered". I assume they're thinking it means "I felt so low, it was as if I had been kicked to the gutter," which probably makes more sense to them than feeling like you'd been disembowelled.
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