Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2014
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Grant McDougall, in reply to
Well they sure do seem like something invented by The Onion.
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I like hageraphobia but admittedly I just made it up this morning so probably not a great candidate.
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Hilary Stace, in reply to
I see a great future for that word and could be WOTY for 2015.
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What about:
Gigatown
Disinformation
Manban
Misheard -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
St Nicky…. wonder worder
hageraphobia
I came up with hageriography some time ago,
which is writing about bad people
(as opposed to hagiography, natch) -
Lilith __, in reply to
I came up with hageriography some time ago,
which is writing about bad people
(as opposed to hagiography, natch)Conversely, this is a Hagarograph .
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"Policy tightening". A common excuse for mistreating people often heard from WINZ for example.
Corruption
"Majority" (a word used when in fact you only have minority support)
Donghua (could have many meanings, none of which would have good connotations) -
The kids' words of the year are
Dry - in response to anything they disagree with or if they are being made fun of.
Care - in response to any attack, perceived slight or situation they exit the worst from.
Rack - to steal something.There ya go - directly from primary school.
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"Inequality" would be my WOTY.
I also want to nominate the digram "white people," used in an othering sense, which I'm seeing everywhere ATM and which I find interesting.
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oh, and +1 for refute (much misused this year by journos who should know better)
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Darn, I did want to suggest:
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Child poverty
and second:
Inequality
but missed the deadline.
Happy voting everyone. -
deadline?
Bestie
Adorbs
Side boob
Clickbait
Octocopter
Paleodiet
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I'm thoroughly with Graeme with 1) cray 2) peakcray but also 3) dirty cos obvious.
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I think we need another competition trying to guess the WOTY for 2015. See who is most clairvoyant.
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mark taslov, in reply to
2015 nomination – rectal feeding – old timey medical treatment, recently revived in a non kinky capacity under the Dick. What our allies lack in moral fibre they more than make up for in perverse creativity. Anyway...we hate ISIS, we hate ISIS, we hate ISIS. [emphasis]. ISIS are the threat, ISIS are the threat, ISIS are the threat. [claps]. 2 legs good, 2 legs bad, ISIS, ISIS, Boom Boom Afridi.
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mark taslov, in reply to
* Apologies, I do seem to have made an absolute balls up of a typo above. Please, in your mind, reconfigure the simple present tense refrain “we hate ISIS” to the progressive “we are hating ISIS♥”.
♥ until further notice.
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Is it too early to pre-nominate for next year?
#Illridewithyou
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I'm picking 'cut the crap' for 2015. Because there's so much crap still out there...
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