Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word of the Year - and Decade!
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Hebe, in reply to
honestly, folk angling for a ‘Words from Last Century’ category… :)
Whippersnapper.
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Islander, in reply to
Another one: If you don’t eat your crusts, your hair won’t curl
For strange reason, no-one EVER said that to me at any time. My curls have always rampaged wildly and tendrilled out to capture whatever is near...
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"Where ya goin Dad?"
"Up the River Onions"
"Why Dad?
"Going to get a wigwam etc" or "see a man about a horse"."Eat ya veges! There's people starving out there ya know".
"Don't do that, I'll spifflicate you!"
I'm jake. How about you?"
"Fair to middling".
"Choice!""Strewth! Rattle ya dags."
Whoa...Taihoa for a mo willya".Grouse.
Bugger.
Geez Wayne.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Grouse.
Bugger.
Geez Wayne.My dad seemed to like grouse and geez Wayne when he was less old. I'm pretty sure I would've heard geez Wayne from the telly when I was an ankle biter, but I'm not quite old enough to actually remember that phrase from any mouth other then my dad's.
'Bugger' is old fashioned now?! Bugger.
"By hook or by crook". I seem to remember my mum using that a lot.
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Okay ... last chance. Provisional lists before they go off to Hadyn to get prepared for voting. I might drop a few more for the sake of simplicity:
WOTY
"100% Pure"
batshit
frankenstorm
Novopay
Baumgartner
boson
brainfade
breach
Brownleebensraum
buggerising
cloud
complicated
cyber-marae
Democracy
Dotcomnishambles
Drone
EPO
Fetching
Fiscal Cliff
Flibbertigibberish
Fracking
Gangnam Style
Gay red top
Geotech CERA
hacker
Hashtag
Hobbit
hub
Kiosk.
Supermoon
Renewal.
Leak. Ng.
Leveson
Mahy
Marmageddon
neo-crusader
Great Recession
Android
crowdsourcing
leaks
illiberal democracy
Ng’ed
Novopay
Omnishambles
Fustercluck
Planet Key
Pop-up shop
proletard
reach
rejuvenate
Relaxed
Romneysia
Smartphone
Suboptimal
unrebuttable
Weather-bomb
Wheedled
YOLOWOTD
“War on …”
9/11
Android
Anecdata
Blog”
blogosphere
broadband
Bubble
Climate
Data
download
fauxpology
fuckeulogy
GFC
Google.
Facebook
Twitter
i
IP
iPhone
Like
meh
mobile
monetise
MSM
Obama
P
pirates
privacy
roflnui
social media
sub-prime
terrorist.
torrent, copyright and insurgent
truthiness
tweet
warming
wiki
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Hebe, in reply to
WOTY entry: Capture. It has lit my life this year (real).
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Sacha, in reply to
WOTY entry: Capture
someone did nominate it upthread
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Hebe, in reply to
spifflicate
Heh.
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Twatcock doesn't make it to WOTD?
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Twatcock doesn’t make it to WOTD?
Good call. It does now.
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
Twatcock doesn’t make it to WOTD?
Good call. It does now.
I used the word twatcock at a journal club and then had to explain the reasoning behind it (it was fairly obvious what it meant:)).
Anyway the student LOVED it and declared her intent to use it in future. I think that's a PAS success story :).
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Hebe, in reply to
I used the word twatcock at a journal club and then had to explain the reasoning behind it
I missed that one: is it equal opportunity profanity? Where did it originate?
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Sacha, in reply to
never mind the beginning, look where it ended up
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I really love twatcock - it is an equal-opportunity insult and deserves to be WORD OF THE DECADE- yes!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
never mind the beginning, look where it ended up
Oh, well played.
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Sacha, in reply to
a missed opportunity, methinks
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I missed that one: is it equal opportunity profanity? Where did it originate?
It was the Public Address readers' Word of the Year 2010! From the press release, which was titled 'We are all twatcocks now':
Public Address founder Russell Brown says the result demonstrated the Public Address reader community’s enduring fondness for neologisms. Like 2007 winner “Te Qaeda” and 2008 finalist “rofflenui”, “twatcock” is a portmanteau word.
Brown says the word, coined by Wellington Public Address reader Tom Beard in the course of a discussion about former Breakfast host Paul Henry, was adopted by other readers two months before the Word of the Year voting was opened.
“Sometimes only a crude sexual insult will do the job, but our reader community determined the need for such an insult that carried no undue weight or implication of gender,” says Brown.
“For obvious reasons, this isn’t necessarily an easy thing to achieve. It has eluded well-meaning but foul-mouthed PC liberals for decades. But in conjoining the two time-honoured genitally-based insults, ‘twat’ and ‘cock’, Tom Beard has hewn something new and compelling from the original raw elements.”
John Drinnan was unimpressed:
A sign of the times. In the online world the trendy folk of Public Address voted recently for a sexual insult "twatcock" as its word of the year.
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Hebe, in reply to
” well-meaning but foul-mouthed PC liberals"
Succinct PAS commenter profile there :-) Count me in . Te Qaeda is grouse too.
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Hebe, in reply to
"the Public Address reader community’s enduring fondness for neologisms"
On that basis I'm going for cyber-marae. That is brilliant.
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Sacha, in reply to
earlier than last decade, however
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Islander, in reply to
I dont read the kind of material you offered in support of that - all I know is - it sounded right for here & I had never read it before (but as a writer, I would never claim outright ownership for a neologism - because someone is coining them, all the time-)
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Hebe, in reply to
Bugger. I admit to starting on email four years ago; internet use about three. I have much to learn.
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Sacha, in reply to
the kind of material you offered in support of that
worth a go - Lisa Reihana el at
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On reflection, my personal word of the decade is 'autism'. Dominated the decade for me. PAS has also given it a bit of attention one way and another.
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