Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2014

Rob Stowell

Tue, 16 Dec 2014 07:26:46 +1300

I'm picking 'cut the crap' for 2015. Because there's so much crap still out there...

Soon Lee

Tue, 16 Dec 2014 07:03:21 +1300

Is it too early to pre-nominate for next year?

#Illridewithyou

mark taslov

Mon, 15 Dec 2014 20:51:13 +1300

* Apologies, I do seem to have made an absolute balls up of a typo above. Please, in your mind, reconfigure the simple present tense refrain “we hate ISIS” to the progressive “we are hating ISIS♥”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyHSjv9gxlE

♥ until further notice.

mark taslov

Mon, 15 Dec 2014 20:02:41 +1300

2015 nomination – rectal feeding – old timey medical treatment, recently revived in a non kinky capacity under the Dick. What our allies lack in moral fibre they more than make up for in perverse creativity. Anyway...we hate ISIS, we hate ISIS, we hate ISIS. [emphasis]. ISIS are the threat,…

Hilary Stace

Sun, 14 Dec 2014 13:37:08 +1300

I think we need another competition trying to guess the WOTY for 2015. See who is most clairvoyant.

Tim Michie

Sat, 13 Dec 2014 16:45:52 +1300

I'm thoroughly with Graeme with 1) cray 2) peakcray but also 3) dirty cos obvious.

Sacha

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:51:47 +1300

Vote over here

william blake

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:32:15 +1300

deadline?

Bestie

Adorbs

Side boob

Clickbait

Octocopter

Paleodiet

Sanya Baker

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:07:19 +1300

Darn, I did want to suggest:
Redacted
Child poverty
and second:
Inequality
but missed the deadline.
Happy voting everyone.

Sacha

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:54:46 +1300

oh, and +1 for refute (much misused this year by journos who should know better)

Caleb D'Anvers

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:20:40 +1300

"Inequality" would be my WOTY.

I also want to nominate the digram "white people," used in an othering sense, which I'm seeing everywhere ATM and which I find interesting.

Andre

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:44:36 +1300

The kids' words of the year are
Dry – in response to anything they disagree with or if they are being made fun of.
Care – in response to any attack, perceived slight or situation they exit the worst from.
Rack – to steal something.

There ya go – directly…

Andre

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:33:54 +1300

"Policy tightening". A common excuse for mistreating people often heard from WINZ for example.
Corruption
"Majority" (a word used when in fact you only have minority support)
Donghua (could have many meanings, none of which would have good connotations)

Lilith __

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 19:49:28 +1300

I came up with hageriography some time ago,
which is writing about bad people
(as opposed to hagiography, natch)

Conversely, this is a Hagarograph .

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:58:02 +1300

St Nicky…. wonder worder
hageraphobia
I came up with hageriography some time ago,
which is writing about bad people
(as opposed to hagiography, natch)

Cushla McKinney

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:56:55 +1300

What about:
Gigatown
Disinformation
Manban
Misheard

Hilary Stace

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:50:58 +1300

I see a great future for that word and could be WOTY for 2015.

giovanni tiso

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:39:32 +1300

I like hageraphobia but admittedly I just made it up this morning so probably not a great candidate.

Grant McDougall

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:15:41 +1300

Well they sure do seem like something invented by The Onion.

Robyn Gallagher

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:43:39 +1300

As a reminder, here's the winners list from 2013. Some of the terms have bleed through to 2014, but others, like Wewege and twerking, are solid icons of 2013.

1. Metadata
2. Fuckstrating
3. Selfie
4. Beersies
5. Berm
6. Big Gay Rainbow
7. Lorde
8. #twitteraunties
9. Wewege
10=Rape…

Robyn Gallagher

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:41:16 +1300

Has anyone mentioned the very positive ‘twitteraunties’?

FYI, #8 on last year's list.

Felix Geiringer

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:01:03 +1300

Sorry for more politics, but it was an election year. To "hijack the election" was an often repeated phrase during the campaign, used against anyone raising an election issue the user didn't want to discuss.

Russell Brown

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:29:00 +1300

There’s another one: Taxpayers’ Onion. Though it might have been a Freudian slip on Russell’s part.

Oh no. It was very deliberate.

Scott Ferguson

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:15:26 +1300

Ebola

Ross Mason

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:55:04 +1300

Well! I'll be......(fill in expletive here)

Ross Mason

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:53:32 +1300

Black Ops

Ken Sparks

Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:48:47 +1300

We should never forget #dirty politics

Stamper Stamp

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:36:32 +1300

Muppet

Simon Bennett

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:34:51 +1300

Priminstersoffice.

BenWilson

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:04:03 +1300

Monkey Selfie

It's the animal kingdom's critique of the entire human race.

william blake

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:09:48 +1300

Peak beard

Textses

My bad

Lilith __

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:41:11 +1300

To be fair, “Lorde” was buzzier in 2013. Another word should get a shot this year.

Seems pretty buzzy to me...

Hilary Stace

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:30:30 +1300

Has anyone mentioned the very positive 'twitteraunties'?

Robyn Gallagher

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:18:03 +1300

To be fair, "Lorde" was buzzier in 2013. Another word should get a shot this year.

Ross Mason

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:55:13 +1300

Robust

Ede

GOFFEDESISEDESLATERMSM JK (out of the loop eh)

Sandra Bowden

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:12:02 +1300

Inequality?

Sacha

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:01:07 +1300

true. there's another word

Katharine Moody

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:56:42 +1300

Lorde should win the WOTY, even if only because I’m tired of the corrosive base nastiness of #dirtypolitics.

'Frozen' was much bigger :-).

Sacha

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:20:27 +1300

Lorde should win the WOTY, even if only because I'm tired of the corrosive base nastiness of #dirtypolitics.

Sacha

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:18:15 +1300

phew. how did *I* miss it?

Josh Petyt

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:08:21 +1300

We didn't. Grant McDougall suggested it back on page 2.

Robyn Gallagher

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:24:16 +1300

Lorde

The word on everybody’s dark-lipsticked lips.

FYI, it was the #7 word in last year's poll.

Sacha

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:25:31 +1300

wow. how did we miss that one?

Lilith __

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:37:25 +1300

Lorde

The word on everybody's dark-lipsticked lips.

Katharine Moody

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:23:40 +1300

Also referred to as, [bleep] John Key.

Rich of Observationz

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:35:15 +1300

A word we haven’t had but I would like is a term for text bugs introduced by a programmer into source code through not realizing the editor has focus, e.g:

data.each do |datum|
datum.update_special 12, hey do you want to go for a beer eh?
end

Fingerpoos?

Joe

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:09:30 +1300

mansplain

Phil Stewart

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:03:30 +1300

Key Lie Massacre

Kim_Wright

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:45:40 +1300

Speaking of beltway........

What did the zero say to the eight?

Nice Belt!

Alec Morgan

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:43:51 +1300

“FJK!”

Ironheart

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:41:14 +1300

Twitterati

David R

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:22:26 +1300

Soylent Brown

Julian Melville

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:04:11 +1300

'Hagar'. With an 'a'. The number of times that cropped up this year...

Rich of Observationz

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:56:41 +1300

The day we stop using ‘beltway’ to refer to NZ politics cannot come too soon.

Have you not seen the proposed route?

Kumara Republic

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:09:30 +1300

Twitter Rant

Beloved of MSM and non-tweeters. Often a single, slightly snippy tweet from a celebrity. See also Twitter Feud : an exchange of one or more tweets between celebrities. Or a single tweet from a celebrity referencing another celebrity.

#twitfight

Andrew Jones

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:59:04 +1300

Not too concerned – as in what our PM seems to often be despite what goes on around him!

Lilith __

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:53:40 +1300

Can someone explain why pffft was listed as a contender. Its been posted a few times so i’m guessing it refers to something or some incident.

It's what John Key says when under pressure in the House.

Lilith __

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:52:37 +1300

Twitter Rant

Beloved of MSM and non-tweeters. Often a single, slightly snippy tweet from a celebrity. See also Twitter Feud : an exchange of one or more tweets between celebrities. Or a single tweet from a celebrity referencing another celebrity.

Geoff Lealand

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:32:57 +1300

Puny Glower

Joe Wylie

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:16:24 +1300

#dirtypolitics, defined as “a Totally Refuted Lift Wung Consprissy Theory Which Everyone Does Anyway”.

If we'd all been to 'good schools' we wouldn't need to be told that.

st ephen

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:07:07 +1300

#dirtypolitics, defined as "a Totally Refuted Lift Wung Consprissy Theory Which Everyone Does Anyway".

Kim_Wright

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:05:19 +1300

I know Dirty Politics probably has it in the bag but has anyone nominated this one yet?

"contested"

I imagine the new OECD report will be described as such in light of Bill English's i/v on RNZ this morning.

Chris Waugh

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:40:20 +1300

Starting with everything-gate. It makes no sense to just grab the gate part and tag it onto anything, but we do.

That -gate one is so bad it's even used in Chinese, where whatever latest scandal or "scandal" is a something-or-other -门/-mén.

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:35:28 +1300

multi-level marketing?
Taxpayers’ Onion
it's enough to make ya weep
or is it just a case of
Alliaceae through the looking glass?

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:32:42 +1300

Dodgy Pawer... or Dowdy Pager?
Paddy Gower puns
I'm liking that 'speaking truth to Gower' offering....

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:19:34 +1300

all gas and '-gaters'...
It makes no sense to just grab the gate part and tag it onto anything,
I know!
by that logic Nixon shoulda been caught out in a Watergate-gate scandal!
or 'plumber-gate' at least...

seems '-gaters' gonna gate, no matter what....
lazy trope shorthand be damned!

Kumara Republic

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:13:08 +1300

Seems I might have sparked a Twitter trend with my Paddy Gower pun upthread. Always a heartening sign when Twitter backdraft can be converted to merciless satire.

Kyle Matthews

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:09:41 +1300

The day we stop using ‘beltway’ to refer to NZ politics cannot come too soon.

One day I'm going to find time to compile a list of overseas words that we use that make no sense in a NZ context and no one bitches about using them at all.

Starting…

Kumara Republic

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:50:16 +1300

There's another one: Taxpayers' Onion. Though it might have been a Freudian slip on Russell's part.

Andrew C

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:42:24 +1300

Can someone explain why pffft was listed as a contender. Its been posted a few times so i'm guessing it refers to something or some incident.

Bart Janssen

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:11:33 +1300

and still affecting the political process and media in NZ?

Is it? Really? What has actually changed?

Sure, we discuss it. And yes most folks here think it's one of the biggest political events for decades (including me). And yet it has changed nothing. Same govt, same media hacks, same…

Susan Snowdon

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:29:11 +1300

Push back

Soon Lee

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:19:23 +1300

Ebola.

It's been with us all year (first case in December 2013), with no end in sight.

Sacha

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:42:15 +1300

it's a swell word –
To moult is to lose feathers,
a Tumulus is a burial mound,

beautiful.
cheers

Sacha

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:41:04 +1300

yay, a non-politics word

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:34:41 +1300

the 'tum' essence...
Tumultuous
+1
it's a swell word –
To moult is to lose feathers,
a Tumulus is a burial mound,
thus this goose is cooked,
while they make mountains
out of molehills,
them chickens are home,
to roost in peace...

Tumult really does describe Parliament
under National though:…

Josh Petyt

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:34:40 +1300

Me too, but I fear we suffer from wishful thinking.

Kumara Republic

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:25:06 +1300

If Dirty Politics had no real effect then why is it likely to be top of the list? Why is it still being discussed, still being referenced, and still affecting the political process and media in NZ? It's now a core reference point for everything else that happens. That's huge.…

Samuel Scott

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:21:53 +1300

swearwolves

nzlemming

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:20:40 +1300

I've noticed this year that nobody criticises any thing – they slam it, according to the MSM.

81stcolumn

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:32:13 +1300

Probably a little obscure but.....

OIA

Chop chop

BenWilson

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:06:58 +1300

This was new to me & Russel Norman today. ARSE CLOWN

It's at least a decade old:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7DdyChR8JU

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:59:02 +1300

Long beaten

never whipped

Alastair Jamieson

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:52:38 +1300

Long beaten to nominating "dirty politics", I'm just going to vote that it will be the eventual winner.

The only other suggestions I have are TPPA and denial, although today's "procedural abomination" probably deserves merit.

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:48:02 +1300

Screaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM5jRl4Ijtg

izogi

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:27:46 +1300

Tumultuous.

I'm starting to cringe ever time I read or hear it in the MSM, as if they've been running some kind of inside competition to slide it into as many reports as possible.

Lilith __

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:19:39 +1300

Screaming Left-Wing Conspiracy-Theroist

Sukie Damson

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:14:28 +1300

This was new to me & Russel Norman today. ARSE CLOWN. .

You have to look it up in the urban dictionary.

Amazed I didn't hear it this year. Maybe one for 2015.

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 21:38:37 +1300

funny that

Margaret Nancy Davies

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 21:27:08 +1300

deadeyed duplicity

Trevor Nicholls

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 21:19:39 +1300

"John Key's National"

Somebody in the National Party's marketing department must have done a global search and replace, producing such niceties as "your John Key's National candidate"

+1 to refute, #dirtypolitics, Gamergate, TeamKey

tony mcartney

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 21:12:03 +1300

"Cut the crap"

tonyH

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 21:02:25 +1300

I can't believe so many have skirted around it:

Slatergate

Joe Wylie

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:57:29 +1300

see, Tom has his moments

And he never post LOL cat pics.

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:53:29 +1300

see, Tom has his moments

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:51:53 +1300

ISIL (which Prez Obama favours)

hence our glorious PM echoing it

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:50:55 +1300

"I haven't read Dirty Politics because it's dirty politics"

= 'left-wing smear'

Joe Wylie

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:49:30 +1300

From the DimPost.

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:47:38 +1300

someone had that earlier
+2

Hilary Stace

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:30:21 +1300

Nicky H also wins the prize for most misspelled (including by me) and mispronounced name. It's Hager like lager.

Felix Geiringer

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:18:47 +1300

"Refute" – meaning deny.

Lilith __

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:07:14 +1300

Relaxed

Katharine Moody

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:00:34 +1300

Obfuscation

So common – we don't even recognise it as such anymore.

Geoff Lealand

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:38:26 +1300

Should that be "bleat-way"?

Soon Lee

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:16:08 +1300

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).

simon g

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:05:53 +1300

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,…

Soon Lee

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:05:44 +1300

The day we stop using 'beltway' to refer to NZ politics cannot come too soon.

JacksonP

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:49:17 +1300

#Ferguson.

#ICantBreathe

MH17

MH370

Lilith __

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:43:28 +1300

Final Warning.
(does anybody remember that?)

OIA.

Alan Perrott

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:41:41 +1300

also – and at the same time acknowledging it as not so much a word as an enthusiastically indulged sport – 'confirmation bias.'

Alan Perrott

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:35:39 +1300

I'll toss 'pile on' into the kitty.

Hammer horrors have nothing on the massed pitchforks and torches you get online.

Geoff Lealand

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:29:00 +1300

"Discombobulated". So many elements--disco, combo, bob ... and widespread confusion?
"Stella! Stella!", is in Interstellar
'"Que cera cera"' for Roger Sutton

Greville Whittle

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:25:27 +1300

#dirtypolitics

manyhatted

Whaledump

Five Eyes

Orivida

Richard Grevers

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:24:06 +1300

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).

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:22:20 +1300

did it get any foothold on Facebook?

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:16:46 +1300

ooh,

#sensitivesausage

was this year wasn't it?

Lilith __

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:13:31 +1300

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.

Russell Brown

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:09:45 +1300

I'm leaning towards the #dirtypolitics version.

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:52:20 +1300

Used as shorthand, in other words.

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:49:54 +1300

I think of Dirty Politics as a book title rather than a word. It's used to describe an issue, rather than used in sentences.

Perhaps makes more sense in compressed environments like Twitter.

B Jones

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:25:12 +1300

I think of Dirty Politics as a book title rather than a word. It's used to describe an issue, rather than used in sentences. That's not to downplay its impressive impact on political discourse.

I think "hacker" or 'hack" deserves a plug because it's got international and local currency, and…

weka

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:10:43 +1300

The majority of New Zealanders didn’t care enough to get rid of the dirty politicians – how can a word be a word of the year if it had no real effect even in New Zealand.

If Dirty Politics had no real effect then why is it likely to be…

Katharine Moody

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:07:06 +1300

Glove-puppets

nzlemming

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:54:40 +1300

how about the ’Bowen Triangle” ?

That works too, and many a good policy has been lost in it...

Dean Wallis

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:53:44 +1300

Something from the entertainment desk – no, not NZ politics but acting, criminals, "the suspension of reality" and devious plots. Oh wait that is National politics...

Uncoupling

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:47:46 +1300

Sansabelt ...
Thorndon Bubble
how about the 'Bowen Triangle" ?
I hear moral compasses just don't work in the area...

Bart Janssen

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:47:18 +1300

I’m sorry but it has to be Dirty Politics possibly the #dirtypolitics version or the verb as Giovanni suggests. The PAS thread with this heading started in August, is still active and today is up to 156,000 views. Is that a record?

A big part of me agrees, odds are…

Jesse Easton

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:46:48 +1300

Chocolate Milk

nzlemming

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:42:16 +1300

Given the number of quays in central Wellington (Lambton, Waterloo, Thorndon, Aotea), how about Quay – “That is such a Quay issue” ;-)

People other than David Farrar (who really, really wants to be NZ's Karl Rove) sometimes refer to it as the Thorndon Bubble, being the line between the…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:38:50 +1300

far canal...
send the prize to Nicky Hagar
Nicky Hager will be heading to Venice for the Biennale next year, as an adviser on Simon Denny's NZ contribution 'Secret Power'...

Though what a shame to see Jenny Gibbs redirecting her 'Medici-like arts patronage' away from this because she doesn't like Hager's…

weka

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:38:44 +1300

Johnkey

There's Jokeyhen too.

weka

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:37:23 +1300

Can you have an analogy with something that doesn’t exist? At least there is a beltway in Washington.

That's why it's analogy of something that does exist, and it's why people use it.

Interestingly Thorndon Bubble means far less to me, as it's never been part of my milieu (had…

Josh Petyt

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:26:52 +1300

Johnkey

Not as common as it ought to be considering how often the country's favourite pundit pops up in the media with soundbite after soundbite but this rushed sounding eponymous portmanteau gets me every time.

Unfortunately I think ISIS might be the killer word of the year. (Pun intended).

Josh Petyt

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:17:55 +1300

There's no Watergate, AFAIK, but we get the odd ~gate suffixed 'scandal'.

Trevor Nicholls

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:14:24 +1300

O'Key, for when it's not Okay.

Carol Stewart

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:05:00 +1300

Perhaps you need some resistors…
;- )

I thought they were futile?

I’d love for Cut the Crap to win WOTY2015.

Me too.

daleaway

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:59:37 +1300

As I said on another blog some months ago, Wellington does not have a beltway, but it does have a Quay Ring.
Also a Key Ring.
One is lovely and has shops, and the other is ugly and has Black Ops.

giovanni tiso

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:47:09 +1300

Cut the Crap as a late runner

I'd love for Cut the Crap to win WOTY2015.

Hilary Stace

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:43:17 +1300

Textual Relations and Beltway would be my second…

paul drone

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:25:26 +1300

How about #teamquay?

Ewan Morris

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:24:06 +1300

Do you have an appropriate NZ alternative for beltway, given it get used as an analogy rather than literally?

Can you have an analogy with something that doesn't exist? At least there is a beltway in Washington.

Given the number of quays in central Wellington (Lambton, Waterloo, Thorndon, Aotea), how…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:03:18 +1300

running away with the circuits...
This makes me yell at my transistor every time.
Perhaps you need some resistors...
;- )

Steve Curtis

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:38:25 +1300

Oxford dictionaries WoY was "vape"

Collins came up with Photobomb

As for twerk, it is far far better as
image of the year

Kumara Republic

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:38:13 +1300

And I predict another blog-related word might trend within the next 3 years: rancid.

Mike O'Connell

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:37:15 +1300

Angry Andy

Graham Dunster

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:33:44 +1300

Honourable.

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:31:43 +1300

NZ alternative for beltway

Thorndon Bubble

Daniel Wilton

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:16:30 +1300

Transmission Gully

Kapiti expressway

Te Aro Bypass?

Kumara Republic

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:15:50 +1300

Many different candidates:

* Rawshark
* #DirtyPolitics
* Hagerbomb
* Textual relations
* Attack blogger
* Team Ctrl-Alt-Delete Key
* Abuse of Gower
* Cut The Crap

weka

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:13:08 +1300

Do you have an appropriate NZ alternative for beltway, given it get used as an analogy rather than literally?

giovanni tiso

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:06:48 +1300

A bad look.

"Is it okay?" repeated fourteen times in a row.

Stephen Judd

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:05:59 +1300

Ooh ooh oooh I got one.

A bad look.

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:01:00 +1300

smear

Sacha

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:00:45 +1300

'but what I _can_ say'

Daniel Wilton

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:56:12 +1300

aucshully

it would be good to get a definitive spelling

Martin Brown

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:45:49 +1300

1 more for 'Attack blogger'

Craig Lucinsky

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:29:49 +1300

Ditto.
This makes me yell at my transistor every time.

Rosemary McDonald

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:29:16 +1300

So many possibilities already posted.

I'll go for....."...a step too far."

as in: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11325069, and
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/241716/key-says-act-event-not-endorsement, and
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/250742/minister-should-resign,-says-fish-and-game

I'd post more similar links, but that would be, well, a step too far.

Ewan Morris

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:28:06 +1300

Beltway – ridiculously inappropriate in a NZ context

Can we have a vote for the word we never want to hear again?

Every time I hear/read media people in New Zealand talking about the Beltway, I want to yell: "THERE IS NO BELTWAY IN WELLINGTON!!!!'

Grant McDougall

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:27:10 +1300

Big Reveal

Andre

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:26:26 +1300

West City Baptist. A recent new term for for anachronistic and violent thinking.

Craig Lucinsky

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:26:15 +1300

HagerBomb

Jeremy Andrew

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:23:27 +1300

Puffed up little shits
Glove-puppets of Cameron Slater

Andrea Eden Low

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:19:04 +1300

garner

(to garner; s/he was garnered – homicide by cop)

Kebabette

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:10:42 +1300

Gigatown and the infinite variations upon said spammery.

Bart Janssen

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:10:15 +1300

On the local political scene two things stood out for me

Mandate

as in "we had a mandate to do whatever the F we liked"

and

"Everyone does it"

When presented with yet more reprehensible behaviour, as if that was some reasonable excuse ... or even true.

Gary Elshaw

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:06:50 +1300

Comfortable

"I'm comfortable with that"

Paul Brislen

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:02:50 +1300

Creamery.

you know it makes sense.

Tony Kennedy

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:01:28 +1300

In no particular order:
80%LVR
WTF
Uber
Aye
Beheading
Dirty
zeroday

Bart Janssen

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:00:05 +1300

Much as I almost think this should be banned to prevent them getting more publicity, one word makes 2014 distinct for me

ISIS

and on an equally depressing note

Beheading

Russell Brown

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:58:01 +1300

Oh I see I’m third or forth in queue for this one :-)

No problem. Re-endorsements will help me sort out the short(er) list for voting.

Ross Bell

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:52:30 +1300

Chris, I've not heard the term "synnies", but agree with Andre:
– synthetics
– synthetic high
– synthetic cannabis
– legal highs (an early 2000s term making a come back)

And also "beagle".

Dastardly Bounder

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:50:43 +1300

#Icantbreathe

weka

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:50:12 +1300

it's a variation on the Bart Simpson defence "I Didn't Do It, Nobody Saw Me Do It, There's No Way You Can Prove Anything!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTbgsoHDc24

We could call it the CrosbyTextor Hat defence.

Hebe

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:48:02 +1300

Pretty legal fersure.

Dave Patrick

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:43:14 +1300

Relaxed

John Key is just so..... relaxed... about everything

hamishm

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:37:58 +1300

Cockwomble

Mike O'Connell

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:36:56 +1300

(our west island cousins) Straylia

Rawshark

Matt McLay

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:33:34 +1300

I'm sorry, I'm for being a man

chris fowlie

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:30:42 +1300

Synnies

... as in, "pssst, want some synnies?"

Glenn Pearce

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:27:33 +1300

LVR

Sean_us Handley

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:24:27 +1300

Movinrrhea i.e. the verbal diarrhea associated with the slogan "moving forward"

Kyle Matthews

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:19:59 +1300

Has anyone coined a word for the ridiculous statements coming out of the PM and the PM's office recently – I did do that, but I did it as a private citizen not as the PM?

If not, I'm naming it Gollumising. "Not listening. Not listening!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0jM-49Y7FY

Sean_us Handley

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:19:20 +1300

Disintermediate

Sean_us Handley

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:19:03 +1300

HisOpinion

Paul Caples

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:15:50 +1300

pretty legal

Dean Wallis

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:14:24 +1300

Prime Minister's hat

Hebe

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:13:51 +1300

I don't recall.

weka

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:55:00 +1300

#gamergate

IMP

Identity Politics

Nick Russell

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:53:56 +1300

Dirty politics is the obvious answer, but it's kind of dull.

I quite liked Akshully.

Stupid

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:47:52 +1300

Oh I see I'm third or forth in queue for this one :-)

Stupid

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:46:20 +1300

Akshully

Christian Mair

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:44:01 +1300

Pffft

Hebe

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:42:59 +1300

Side-eye

Clint Fern

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:41:16 +1300

Textual relations

Kat Saunders

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:41:09 +1300

Bae

Feminist

Ferguson

Caliphate

Kim K's Butt

Thalia KR

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:40:58 +1300

I agree it really has to be Dirty Politics.

But 'rape culture' might be second.

adPro

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:35:52 +1300

TeamDirty

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:33:31 +1300

'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

Kim_Wright

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:28:03 +1300

Black Ops