Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2014
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Sacha, in reply to
Used as shorthand, in other words.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I'm leaning towards the #dirtypolitics version.
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As Prime Minister
I'd also support #dirtypolitics. It's the biggest thing that's happened in NZ politics this year. The election was a mere sideshow.
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ooh,
#sensitivesausage
was this year wasn't it?
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Sacha, in reply to
did it get any foothold on Facebook?
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Slater (ok, it's a name, but also a word quite descriptive of him - a woodlouse, hiding under rotting logs eating detritus :-)
Internet Party
Five Eyes
Surveillance
Intelligence (an oxymoron in most uses).
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#dirtypolitics
manyhatted
Whaledump
Five Eyes
Orivida
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"Discombobulated". So many elements--disco, combo, bob ... and widespread confusion?
"Stella! Stella!", is in Interstellar
'"Que cera cera"' for Roger Sutton -
I'll toss 'pile on' into the kitty.
Hammer horrors have nothing on the massed pitchforks and torches you get online.
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also - and at the same time acknowledging it as not so much a word as an enthusiastically indulged sport - 'confirmation bias.'
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Final Warning.
(does anybody remember that?)OIA.
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#Ferguson.
#ICantBreathe
MH17
MH370
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Soon Lee, in reply to
The day we stop using 'beltway' to refer to NZ politics cannot come too soon.
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If we're using the Time "Man of the Year" criteria (i.e. a nomination represents acknowledgement, not approval) then #dirtypolitics gets in not because it 'failed' to move the public, but because it was successfully twisted.
"Key brushes off Hager's/ Dotcom's/ Left's dirty politics", that kind of thing. See Hosking, Roughan, usual suspects. The Vox Pop of the year would be "I haven't read Dirty Politics because it's dirty politics".
I agree with "beheading" too - it's there because of, not despite, it's horrible associations. Let's face it, New Zealand's foreign/intelligence/defence policy has been dictated by murderers with cameras, so that's pretty damn influential.
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Soon Lee, in reply to
I'm seeing a move away from calling them ISIS (which can be confused for the Egyptian Goddess who some pagans honour) to ISIL (which Prez Obama favours).
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Should that be "bleat-way"?
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Obfuscation
So common - we don't even recognise it as such anymore.
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Relaxed
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"Refute" - meaning deny.
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Nicky H also wins the prize for most misspelled (including by me) and mispronounced name. It's Hager like lager.
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Sacha, in reply to
someone had that earlier
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
From the DimPost.
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Sacha, in reply to
"I haven't read Dirty Politics because it's dirty politics"
= 'left-wing smear'
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Sacha, in reply to
ISIL (which Prez Obama favours)
hence our glorious PM echoing it
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Sacha, in reply to
see, Tom has his moments
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