Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2017
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One more for ‘Alternative Facts’
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“look”, seeing that radio interviewees (politicians especially) preface every second statement with this (and it is so bloody annoying!!)
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Antifa
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Incel
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Cuck
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Youthquake
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Just going to echo some of the ones I’ve read that I want to give a second for:
Covfefe
Let’s do this
Smashed avo
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JLM,
Rangatahi. I wanted a te reo word and this is an appropriate one I learned this year.
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Tinned tomatoes
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Frose!
Frozen + Rose
It’s delicious, it merges two great things together and its ‘so hot right now’!
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Katharine Moody, in reply to
Wadeable
Never heard before as a measure of water quality – so in that regard it is unique to NZ – and could only have come from a previous winner, that being ‘Planet Key’.
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william blake, in reply to
Portmanteau.
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The feels when (barf)
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turnout
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#iammetiria. : it opened up the debate on poverty
Jacindamania
#metoo
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Absolutely!
Meaning ‘quite’
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Thoughts & prayers
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Trumpism
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(Trumpism is a kind of disease – like botulism)
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Katita, in reply to
I love omnishambles and use it often ;-)
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Dotard
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I can’t see how ‘Jacaindamania’ didn’t have the greatest impact on everyone here in NZ, certainly more so than any words that came in from overseas.
‘jacindamania’ for word of the year. I’ve even added it to my dictionaries.
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Also thought I’d point out my entry, ‘jacindamania’, above was the first grammatically-correct rendering of the term ie: expressed as a common noun rather than a capitalised name or proper noun.
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TracyMac, in reply to
I’d be interested in your citation re your coining being more grammatically “correct”.
Sure, we don’t cap-up normal nouns in English, but since this one is based on a proper noun (belonging to a natural, live, person), it seems stylistically inelegant not to leave the cap in.
In fact, I find many style guides and grammarians say just that, such as this discussion on uncapped eponyms:
Some eponymous words are still capitalized like a proper noun, so those not capitalized are most clearly eponyms. The important, defining property is that the word does not refer exclusively to the person or place named by the proper noun, as does Marxism or Christian, but is used to refer to a general category, as do quisling, boycott and fuchsias …
In our example, we’re definitely referring exclusively to one person.
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mark taslov, in reply to
Given the neologism is such a blatant derivative of a globally recognised precedent, I’d let it be.
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