Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2019: Korero phase
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Ihumatao
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Hamish W, in reply to
I seccond this !
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TRAVELATOR!!!*
*without the exclamation marks, obv
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Climate emergency
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Existential
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Robust. This year's 'going forward' in bureaucratic jargon.
And a +1 for OK Boomer. World famous in New Zillun.
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mōrena
mōrena ki a koutou katoa - good morning to you all
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Cancel culture (the last three are winners of 2019 word of the year for Macquarie, dictionary.com and Oxford btw).
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1. understand (as in "we want to")
2. conversation (as in"we need to have a", so that we can understand) -
Jonesing
Especially relevant this year in relation to Shane "I'd love to have 3 billion dollars to give away" Jones -
Data Breach - been hearing about these all year.
Treasury "Hack" - a fine example -
As-salāmu ʿalaykum (Arabic: السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ) - peace be upon you.
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Ah... beaten by KathrynB and Simon Armstrong, but I definitely think it should be:
As-salāmu ʿalaykum
The response from the Muslim community to the terrible events of March 15 was humbling and meant such a horrible act actually brought us together as a country much more than dividing us - which was the goal.
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"Climate emergency" because we need to hear it more.
"OK boomer" - an instaclassic. -
Maunga. Suddenly relevant to Aucklanders in a way it didn't before we became more widely aware that the Maori do now own many of our beloved mountains and the implications of seeing tiro rangatiratanga in action. Whether you agree with the Owairaka protesters or not, the term is now in much wider use.
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"Well-being"
Although a well-established word, in 2019 its use and definition became central to political debate.
(and I'll just add my annual grump, to say that it's not "neologism of the year", it's about words being used, not just invented, especially as they often fade fast).
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Resilience
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SLUSHIES
(shouting, of course)
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Decolonisation. Gotta have sympathy for words that are stretched and twisted far beyond their actual meaning.
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"Buyback"
Several options related to the gun laws, but this is probably the headline choice. A news staple for half the year.
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Christchurch Call
Wellbeing
Jacinda
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Protect
The term that changed the nature of Maori land protest from claiming back or asking for ownership of land to taking a stand to protect land that you already have a stake in, whether or not you officially own it. Subsequently used by Owairaka protestors to claim to protect trees and fauna when it was seen by some as protest against Maori land ownership. -
woke
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This
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Guttered (in place of gutted)
Your (in place of you’re)Cancel culture (which has already been mentioned, which might cancel any chance I may have had)
Scorcese
weather aberrations
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