Hard News by Russell Brown

4:35PM Dec 5, 2012 • Read Post

Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word of the Year - and Decade!

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• Rowan Crawford, 16:35 Dec 5, 2012

  "100% Pure," quotation marks included.

  And a nod to the Hekia Parata and the Gunning-Fog Index with "AAARRGGGGGH!"

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• Greg Wood, 16:38 Dec 5, 2012

  Is "100%" a word?

  Now back in Aucktown • Since Dec 2006 • 86 posts Report

• Greg Wood, 16:38 Dec 5, 2012

  Argh, Rowan, you bastard!

  Now back in Aucktown • Since Dec 2006 • 86 posts Report

• Rowan Crawford, in reply to Greg Wood, 16:39 Dec 5, 2012

  I wondered if it was too much of a gimme!

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• bob daktari, 16:39 Dec 5, 2012

  it's "complicated" - used whenever one doesn't want to explain anything to anyone ever

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• Toby, 16:41 Dec 5, 2012

  brainfade

  pt chev • Since Mar 2011 • 27 posts Report

• Wisemonkey, 16:42 Dec 5, 2012

  2012 - the year of "breach"

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• Greg Wood, in reply to Toby, 16:43 Dec 5, 2012

  "can't recall, sorry"

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• JacksonP, 16:46 Dec 5, 2012

  Kiosk.
  Supermoon. [sic]
  Renewal.

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• Ross Mason, 16:46 Dec 5, 2012

  Leak. Ng.

  Heh.

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• Glenn Pearce, 16:47 Dec 5, 2012

  "fetching"

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• JacksonP, 16:48 Dec 5, 2012

  Leveson.

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• Kebabette, 16:50 Dec 5, 2012

  Brownleebensraum

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• Shane Telfer, 16:51 Dec 5, 2012

  rejuvenate

  Parata-speak for closing ChCh schools.

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• JWT1, 16:53 Dec 5, 2012

  Fiscal Cliff

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• Ross Mason, in reply to JWT1, 16:53 Dec 5, 2012

  Fiscal Cliff

  Nah. 2013. Save it.

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• Bart Janssen, 16:55 Dec 5, 2012

  I feel like this year so many events have had their own hashtag to define them that I'll nominate

  Hashtag

  as word of the year.

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• Rich of Observationz, 16:58 Dec 5, 2012

  proletard

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• Ross Mason, 17:03 Dec 5, 2012

  Just to be first for Decade cos others have picked them....

  Google.
  Facebook
  Twitter

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• Robyn Gallagher, in reply to Toby, 17:06 Dec 5, 2012

  brainfade

  I second this! I love that it's pretty much become a standard description in the media for John Key's inability to diplomatically answer a question he'd rather not answer.

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• Russell Brown, 17:11 Dec 5, 2012

  Oh hell, I feel compelled to join in. I need to propose this for Word of the Decade:

  Data

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• Glenn Pearce, in reply to Russell Brown, 17:13 Dec 5, 2012

  Breach

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• Robyn Gallagher, in reply to Bart Janssen, 17:13 Dec 5, 2012

  I feel like this year so many events have had their own hashtag to define them that I'll nominate

  Hashtag

  Events having hashtags of their own is not new for 2012. Afterall, #eqnz was a nominee in both 2010 and 2011. What is new for 2012 is "hashtag" becoming a word in its own right. People talk about hashtags without needing to gloss what it means. And check out the IRL spoken use of such lol phrases as "hashtag woteva". And then there's the news that a new parent had (maybe) named their child hashtag. Yeah, the word has become its own thing in 2012. #hashtag

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• matthewbuchanan, 17:14 Dec 5, 2012

  Hobbit

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• Bart Janssen, in reply to Robyn Gallagher, 17:20 Dec 5, 2012

  Yeah kinda what I was getting at but said more eloquently

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