Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2018
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Smocking gun
Grace Millane
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GDPR. Pretty much every corporate has been spooked and scrambling, and it's part of the focus on "our" data being gathered and used that seems to be swirling around this year.
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Neve.
Her birth being a pretty defining moment both in NZ and globally..
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Brexit. (as in total clusterfuck)
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Canadians go home!
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Collusion. As a US cultural colony I'm sure we've all heard that one too much.
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Fascism.
(A depressing thought that fascism might be the word of the year in 2018.)
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Omni-shambles.
Because omni-shambles.
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Birds Aren't Real — because this is the year that Poe's Law has taken a hell of a beating.
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#metoonz
These are the NZ stories
2. Freezepeach
We heard a lot from right-wingers claiming free speech for racists, misogynists, and nazis this year and ,sadly, I expect a lot more next year. -
E scooter
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metoo
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Lime
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Reeferendum - such a great pun
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Soymon Bridges
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JLM,
Wicked. In all its senses
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Grift.
Because Donald and friends. -
For word (or phrase) of the year I nominate:
'Virtue signalling' - strongly used by the inadequate to deflect self-judgement.Plus a special mention to the punctuation mark of the year : !
aka the humble exclamation mark, the screamer, a slammer if you like - once of a solitary persuasion, they now cluster round the end of sentences like so many rubberneckers at an accident!!! -
Fortnite.
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How about 'Ross Asset Management'
or am I mixing my scandals and years...? -
Woke
TERF -
Bridgesticulation
feeble pointing the finger across the chasm that separates privileged butthurt from reality
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What about "Coalition"?
For two reasons:
1) The first true MMP coalition government has held up better than most people expected.
2) NZ First's obsession with calling is a coalition government, instead of a "Labour led" government.
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incel
centrist
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Loose leaf.
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