Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2014
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Privilege: It has been attached to all of the major international news narratives I can think of and a good number of domestic stories. I don't go a day on social media without it being employed and debated somewhere. The debate around it is becoming both more polarising and complicated, if that's possible.
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Hebe,
Climate change.
Adaptation and mitigation. -
Nomination for Auckland WOTY...
"CV"
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Hebe,
Whaledump.
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Leftwing Blogsters
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Fundamentally.
Definition: Well, it's contested.
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Synthetic high
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mana.
A word of 2014 in the sense that it's not likely to play a major role in NZ politics in 2015. -
Where is Paddy Gower trying to make MANban happen?
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Cut the crap, John.
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screaming left wing conspiracy theory
(otherwise known as a true record of events)
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Conspiracy-theory
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Muppet
as beloved by John Key
although a puppet himself, he does like to 'keep his hand in'
- look for his new book of epic epithets:
Puns and Duty - the humour of the House -
The hacker known as "Rawshark".
Leadership.
Akshully.
Capital gain.
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Bubble.
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Nu Zilders
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Name of the Year: Kim
(Jong Un, Kardashian, Dotcom ...)
Otherwise my vote for Word of the Year would be [ ... ]
because there are no words any more. John Key has removed all meaning from them.
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'Chit Chat'
Finlayson's reading of parliamentary select committee processes
and not a discussion of ministers spending -
Moment of Truth
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Black Ops
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'Pretty legal'*
and other fictions and flights of fancy from Steven Joyce
the pre-eminent eminem miner(this has been bandied about in Stuff's list of 'phrases of the year' too)
* alot like the Treaty of Waitangi in relation to sovereignty
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TeamDirty
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I agree it really has to be Dirty Politics.
But 'rape culture' might be second.
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Bae
Feminist
Ferguson
Caliphate
Kim K's Butt
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Textual relations
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