Hard News: The Public Address Word of the Year 2011
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Spring.
[or a related wordphrase like Arab Spring, Tahrir, facebook revolution or Uprising.] -
Mandate.
A 2011 word that can only get better over the next three years.
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The Gretchen Weiners in me wants the word of the year to be 'Fetch'.
But in my life right now, the appropriate phrase is 'Haverface'
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merc, in reply to
As in the Two-Johnnies (see what I did there ;-) had a man date?
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Graeme Edgeler, in reply to
Mandate.
you mean to cup of tea?
edit: missed it by that much.
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How about "private", as in "private conversation"?
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Economy-related words:
PIIGS, double-dip, Eurozone.
Major events:
Fukushima was big for a while there.
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Glen Wright, in reply to
Yep. 2012-14 will see plenty of referring to the mandate that is not really a mandate, secured as a result of a mandate that was not really a mandate.
What Johnnies do in the privacy of a cafe is really none of my business.
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merc, in reply to
What Johnnies do in the privacy of a cafe is really none of my business.
Sadly many of my workmates and some acquaintances have said this is the case. When I say why, they simply say...private is private!
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Or "Treasury Forecast". But that's really a phrase of the last 3-5 years I guess.
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Disaster/Crisis.
Sometimes a legitimate state of emergency, sometimes a ludicrous state of emergent hyperbole. -
Rather than "ghost-chips" I'd offer ghost-? as in "You know I can't do your ghost-jobs, John"
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EQNZ came 9th last year. Oh, those were simpler, more innocent times.
I like 'munted'. Beyond its use by Mayor Bob, it seems that for many people around NZ and indeed the world, 2011 has been a bit munted.
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Or just "Jobs", for the politicos and Apple fanbois both.
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I have a theory - the best nominations for Word of the Year stand on their own with out needing to be explained.
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Planking.
Unwittingly captured the zeitgeist of 2011 by being simultaneously ludicrous and disastrous. -
Sacha, in reply to
Or "Treasury Forecast". But that's really a phrase of the last 3-5 years I guess.
certainly more useful in retrospect, in any case.
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dc_red, in reply to
captured the zeitgeist of 2011 by being simultaneously ludicrous and disastrous.
Are you thinking of the Republican Party nomination process by chance?
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Anonymous Author, in reply to
Like a ghost-dictionary?
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Lew Stoddart, in reply to
I have a theory – the best nominations for Word of the Year stand on their own with out needing to be explained.
I endorse this theory, and think it so powerful that there's no need to talk about it any further.
L
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merc, in reply to
It's a private meaning.
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David R, in reply to
so Ghost-Jobs as Paul mentioned, but with a capital J. Double whammy.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
setting the epicene...
I still say twatcock was gendered
it definitely ain't neutered,
positively hermaphroditic,
an embodiment of mixed
member representation! -
Sacha, in reply to
neolib :)
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Have we got our bunga bunga on yet?
Berlusconi might work also. Well, he didn't work. Which is I guess the point.
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