Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2014
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There's another one: Taxpayers' Onion. Though it might have been a Freudian slip on Russell's part.
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The day we stop using ‘beltway’ to refer to NZ politics cannot come too soon.
One day I'm going to find time to compile a list of overseas words that we use that make no sense in a NZ context and no one bitches about using them at all.
Starting with everything-gate. It makes no sense to just grab the gate part and tag it onto anything, but we do.
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Seems I might have sparked a Twitter trend with my Paddy Gower pun upthread. Always a heartening sign when Twitter backdraft can be converted to merciless satire.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
all gas and '-gaters'...
It makes no sense to just grab the gate part and tag it onto anything,
I know!
by that logic Nixon shoulda been caught out in a Watergate-gate scandal!
or 'plumber-gate' at least...seems '-gaters' gonna gate, no matter what....
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Dodgy Pawer... or Dowdy Pager?
Paddy Gower puns
I'm liking that 'speaking truth to Gower' offering....
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
multi-level marketing?
Taxpayers’ Onion
it's enough to make ya weep
or is it just a case of
Alliaceae through the looking glass? -
Chris Waugh, in reply to
Starting with everything-gate. It makes no sense to just grab the gate part and tag it onto anything, but we do.
That -gate one is so bad it's even used in Chinese, where whatever latest scandal or "scandal" is a something-or-other -门/-mén.
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I know Dirty Politics probably has it in the bag but has anyone nominated this one yet?
"contested"
I imagine the new OECD report will be described as such in light of Bill English's i/v on RNZ this morning.
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#dirtypolitics, defined as "a Totally Refuted Lift Wung Consprissy Theory Which Everyone Does Anyway".
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
#dirtypolitics, defined as “a Totally Refuted Lift Wung Consprissy Theory Which Everyone Does Anyway”.
If we'd all been to 'good schools' we wouldn't need to be told that.
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Geoff Lealand, in reply to
Puny Glower
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Twitter Rant
Beloved of MSM and non-tweeters. Often a single, slightly snippy tweet from a celebrity. See also Twitter Feud : an exchange of one or more tweets between celebrities. Or a single tweet from a celebrity referencing another celebrity.
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Lilith __, in reply to
Can someone explain why pffft was listed as a contender. Its been posted a few times so i’m guessing it refers to something or some incident.
It's what John Key says when under pressure in the House.
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Not too concerned - as in what our PM seems to often be despite what goes on around him!
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Twitter Rant
Beloved of MSM and non-tweeters. Often a single, slightly snippy tweet from a celebrity. See also Twitter Feud : an exchange of one or more tweets between celebrities. Or a single tweet from a celebrity referencing another celebrity.
#twitfight
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
The day we stop using ‘beltway’ to refer to NZ politics cannot come too soon.
Have you not seen the proposed route?
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'Hagar'. With an 'a'. The number of times that cropped up this year...
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David R, in reply to
Soylent Brown
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Twitterati
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“FJK!”
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Speaking of beltway........
What did the zero say to the eight?
Nice Belt!
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Key Lie Massacre
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Joe,
mansplain
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A word we haven’t had but I would like is a term for text bugs introduced by a programmer into source code through not realizing the editor has focus, e.g:
data.each do |datum|
datum.update_special 12, hey do you want to go for a beer eh?
endFingerpoos?
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Katharine Moody, in reply to
Also referred to as, [bleep] John Key.
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