Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2017
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I’ll get in behind Jacindamania. Closely followed by #metoo.
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Jacindamania.
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Paddles
Tinned spaghetti pizza
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“Narrative”. Still very useful in film studies. 🎬🎬
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FletcherB, in reply to
Tinned spaghetti pizza
I do not want tinned pizza, no-matter what flavour you offer me.. :D
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From the moment Rob S prematurely nominated Jacindamania on the 2016 thread 20 days ago this year’s WOTY was always going to be one of controversy.
With question marks hanging over Felix Geringer’s nomination due to a failure to comply with terms of the agreement:
So you can only propose two words or phrases per comment.
It would appear that Soon Lee is a shoo-in to take this year’s prize, that is assuming no attempt is made in the interim to relitigate terms after the fact.
For some reason this all feels like a most 2017 turn of events.
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Twitter presidency
the resistanceAlmost every night at the given hour his edicts appear on the timelines. When they do the regulars step up to deliver their barrage of heckles, rebuttals, memes, flaming hot takes, sycophancy, retweets, comment retweets, b l o c k s, mutes and threads to, for and against the resistance.
Almost every night I observe one local step up to launch vitriol all the way across the Pacific onto the combover’s Johnston & Murphys – it takes dedication that, I wonder if it’s even therapeutic.
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Brexitrump (global)
Jacindamania (local) -
Let’s do this
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I was going to go for “majority” but since that’s already been nominated how about
“plurality” seeing no one in NZ knows what it means. -
Oumuamua: messenger from afar arriving first – demonstrating how hopelessly unconcise the english language can be!
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Ken Sparks, in reply to
I’m not a total fan but I’m way happier to have Jacinda and co in charge rather than that other sorry bunch. For that reason my phrase of the year is ‘Let’s do this.’
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Jacindamania is definitely the word of the half-year. But as with all annual retrospectives, anything that happened in the early months tends to get less attention than it deserves (ask the Halberg or Oscar contenders).
So a few oldies to balance things up …
Burnham / Hit and Run
Defamation
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Rahui.
Peakbee.
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KingQueenMaker
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Complicit
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Rivers.
It’s a word, and a nice one. They connect us all, geographically, economically and culturally.
They are the canaries in our collective coal mine.
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Nicky Hager.
For services to journalism and democracy.
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Please, not Jacindamania. I object!
Unless, that is, you want PAS to establish itself as nothing other than a partial bunch of happy clappy kumbaya choristers.
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Alternative truth
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simon g, in reply to
It’s the Time magazine “Person of year” yardstick, isn’t it? Hitler, Stalin and Trump get the gong, but no approval should be inferred.
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Jacindamania!!!
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Alternative facts.
Virtue signalling.
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Kaikoura
SH1
So happy that the coast road and Nin’s Bins are open again.
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Blockchain
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