Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2019: Korero phase
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'Virtue signalling' - still prevalent among those with performance and anger issues coupled with an internet connection.
(...and as opposed to 'Verjus signalling' which literally is 'sour grapes'!)'Impeachment' - obviously derived from the Imp every High Official has on Each shoulder, and the consequences of listening to the wrong one..
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The Spinoff: All the things National MPs think are virtue signalling
In an interview with the Spinoff a little over a year ago, then prime minister and National Party leader Bill English was asked whether he considered himself a feminist. Though he believed in equal rights for women, came the reply, he would not want to “confuse people” by using the term. For a man to do so, he suggested, would amount to “virtue signalling”.
The term has been adopted by finger wavers across the spectrum but has been especially embraced by the right. It is deployed to denounce statements regarded as vacuous or disingenuous efforts to demonstrate goodness, without any real substance.
There’s no denying that it captures something real. The trouble is, much in the way its pejorative cousin, “politically correct”, can be substituted via a plugin with the words “being decent to people”, “virtue signalling” sometimes seems like it would be better swapped out for “doing/supporting a good thing”.
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Anti-vaxxer (or as I like to call them total fucktards)
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OK Boomer.
Global heating.
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Ihumatao
Superover
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“Precocious” Greta Thunberg
“42 Joints” a day
“Shadow Banning”
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Ihumātao
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I posted probably too many potential WOTY above and think of them all the term Ihumatao resonates most strongly. It no longer only denotes a geographic place, now also representing a movement and a new ideology in New Zealand and Maori public affairs.
This year the actions of the protectors at Ihumatao highlighted what to most seemed an obvious injustice and public sentiment drove local and central government leaders, Fletchers and iwi leaders to seek a new solution. We don't know what that is yet but we can be sure that last year the word Ihumatao was fairly unknown but is now firmly seated in the public consciousness, will be included in all official national histories and school children will be learning about Ihumatao in NZ history (whereas I think it has been mentioned broadly as Mangere mountain in most major histories to date). They may also learn about SOUL and Pania Newton, but it is the term Ihumatao that will always resonate. It's a strong word, distinctly Maori unlike Bastion Point. In the end, its the one that I think stands out to us as New Zealanders, more so than climate and other more global possibilities. -
steven crawford, in reply to
You make a good point. And I'd like to nominate this most influential artist of the year
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"The new normal"
Perhaps a little under the radar, but just recently I realised how often I've heard this term this year. Lying as a political strategy, white supremacy, catastrophic climate events (most recently the Aust fires), nationwide protests &c. All the new normal.
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Mana whenua.
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'Smocking gun'. The new 'Covfefe'?
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You Crane.
Buyback.
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I'd like to add PAWOTY as the Public Address Word of the Year because it's the last player picked and it deserves an outing.
Only question - do you pronounce it paw-outty or pa-wotty.
Hmmm.
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"Mana whenua"
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Morgan Nichol, in reply to
paw-outty or pa-wotty
puh-whoa-tea
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Paul Brislen, in reply to
hmmmm. Might need an accent.
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linger, in reply to
Smocking gun
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Reeferendum.
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Quid pro quo
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Righto – that's it! The korero phase has ended and I'm going to compile the longlist.
Thanks everyone! Stay tuned for voting!
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