Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2015
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Sam F, in reply to
I want a word that means why do we have to keep fighting for the same things over and over again. Latest issue. Radio NZ cutting staff including one of my favourite programmes, the gentle and intelligent, Nights. We had a big public meeting to save RNZ a few years ago and here we have to do it again and again.
That's a shame - I really enjoy Nights, the only radio programme I reliably listen to almost every day. Don't particularly care if that makes me a young fogey in some people's eyes (I'm not that young anymore anyway).
No idea what new word to invent, but there's a great old one. Beats me what the gods are punishing us for, though.
Right, I'll stop introducing derails now...
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Twitsplaining: verb. informal. Mode of discourse in online debate deploying a combination of neologisms, portmanteaus, animated gifs, insults and exasperated complaints about how stupid everyone else is to try and win people to your point-of-view
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JLM,
Boom. As in housing price inflation, especially Auckland. Also the noise created when that bubble turns to bust. And the sound of melting glaciers crashing ito the sea. And of unprotected trees falling. And of historic buildings being desecrated in Palmyra. And guns going off killing people everywhere. Even the mating call of the kakapo which has just had the private bit of its protection money withdrawn by a poverty-calling aluminium smelter. You get the idea...
I had hopes that 2015 might be the year when most people started to wake up and get enraged. I still think it might be looked back at as a landmark year, from Corbyn to Canada to COP21 starting to pull together. Just not in New Zealand
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Red Pique
Blaming everything on Labour....
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
It reminds us of our national sport in a parallel universe: farnarkling.
Like
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I would also like to propose a word I have heard so often this year, a word you probally all hear when spending time in cafes as people read their "Newspapers",
when we hear what our esteemed "Elders" are doing for us.....
fufuxache -
OIA
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Disappointingly, Lorde did not then go on to record a hit single caled ‘Berm’.
There's still time.
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Evaluate - it is the International year of evaluation after all.
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nzlemming, in reply to
Really? No love for CampbellLive?
Given huge support here and throughout NZ I thought it was a good suggestion
It is, but were still only at the suggesting stage, not the voting stage.
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"As a victim of sexual violence......"
"Leave the chamber"
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
fufuxache
I find I have ready receptors for this...
How could a word this perfect have been hidden from us for so long - like some newly discovered ancient South American city redolent with eldritch dread thrust up from the miasmic stench of the unspeakable Elders inhumanity...
...the scales fall from my eyes aieee aie fffurrffffugs ssskk....<the rest of the manuscript is torn away beyond that point>
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TracyMac, in reply to
fufuxache
I have to agree with Ian. While the spelling is a bit fresh to perhaps qualify as an actual "word of the year", it's a tried and true phrase I have deployed way too often this year.
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
We really do need a like button - even if it is only there just for Ian's posts.
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"Nimby"
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Sue,
I'm going to suggest
islamophobia -
Lilith __, in reply to
the scales fall from my eyes aieee aie fffurrffffugs ssskk….
Something I rarely speak but often type and read: FFS.
[See also WTF and WTAF. Somehow typing those caps gets out the frustration.] -
Lilith __, in reply to
We really do need a like button – even if it is only there just for Ian’s posts.
Autolike.
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Text plain ffs.
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It's OIA for me with Campbell Live or similar second
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'Review' as a synonym for 'cancel' or 'make redundant' or 'succumb to political pressure'.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Text plain ffs.
fufuxache! ;)
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How about "Refute"
As in "LA LA LA LA, I AM IGNORING YOU". -
Hebe, in reply to
fufuxache
I find I have ready receptors for this…
Yes. Fufuxache.
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“Auckland housing bubble”
“[Redacted]”
"Red Peak"
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