Hard News: The Public Address Word of the Year 2013
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See this is where my long-term absence from Aotearoa is a distinct disadvantage ’cause I’d’ve said misogyny
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Sue,
gigatown – despite this being something that happens all around the world, i’d never heard of it before so if the hashtags are enough to go by
oh and
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JR,
Though I’d probably vote for metadata, I’ll submit LOVEINT as it’s creepier cousin.
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Hebe,
Pope Francis.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
if any humour were intended,
it’d be a complete farce, but as it is
it’s just half-farced.Applause!
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JacksonP, in reply to
I’m rather fond of “selfie” because it is never, ever going to stop making me giggle like a dirty-minded infant.
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Has ‘meme’ been in the word of the year before? Seems like it should have been.
Just noticed it on an overseas list. (not cheating, honest) :-)
Also.
Arab Spring
Shutdown -
Rape Culture
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My top 5…
Five Eyes
Secrets
Privacy
Drones
Bitcoin -
“Actually”.
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Arg, I see I’ve been beaten. But “actually” still actually has my vote. It actually conveys the current governments condescending response to actual concerns. Whenever JK says Actually you can pretty much guarantee that the next few words will be divorced from reality and common-sense.
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Maybe not WOTY, but I think Winston Peters needs a small shout-out for continuing to use the verb “Cinderella-ise” after he muffed that attempt to say it on election night in 2011 so spectacularly.
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“Selectors”. As in Five Eyes evil.
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“so”
As in beginning every sentence imaginable with, particularly used by academics, ‘go to’ people and other media fronters. -
+1 for Bitcoin
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part-privatisation
mum and dad (investors)
loonies -
Orwellian
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crowd funding
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Eye spy.
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I’ve already gone on record with Panopticmonium.
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‘Yeh-oh’, with a half hearted glottal stop at the hyphen.
- an alternative to ‘acshuly’ or ‘so…’ when beginning a sentence that you know is possibly meaningless/untrue.
Popularised by J. Key and D. Farrar
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Wegege
Mansplain (I dislike this word immensely, oops I’m mansplaining again!)
Fibre
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The mythical creature the mumandadinvestor. They were supposed to be the primary reason for the sale of our state assets but none have ever been seen or heard.
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Cronut!
Blechhh. I mean.. yum?
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Chipotle
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