Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2016
187 Responses
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post-truth
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Also, "fake news"
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clusterfuck
applies to just about everything this year
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He may have won too many accolades already, but surely it is hard to go past "Trump" as word of the year, or perhaps "Trumpocalypse".
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In the same vein, "truthiness" and "fake news" have had time in the sun this year.
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Post-truth has to be it.
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Bigly.
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Hillary Clinton called it: deplorable.
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2016. The word of the year is the year, what with so many denouncements of 2016 as a very bad year.
My other pick is alt-right. -
Kebabette, in reply to
Do you watch Last Man on Earth? Best show of the year, other than Steven Universe.
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post truth or Brexit for me
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brexit
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words that come to mind post-truth, clickbait, skux, 'Pie Munster'
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Sacha, in reply to
damn your flying fingers, Doug :)
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Stiff competition this year, but I feel I must put in a vote for 'shit-weasel'.
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Awesome. Everything is "awesome" Especially Innovation.
Yes, 2016 is the year of Awesome Innovation!
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Shane Le Brun, in reply to
I also nominate bigly, it is actually word apparently.
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Majestical
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post- truth or post-fact have to be it
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Kleptocracy. It's interesting to see how effective shame was in preventing blatant abuse of power by the arrival of someone who doesn't feel it.
Also: Harambe. Hopefully self-explanatory.
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Hebe,
Dead. It’s been a bigly deading year.
Slow-slip. Geological, but seems like a metaphor for Western society.
Subduction.
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If I was going to be intellectual about it I'd say "confirmation bias" or the more common "echo chamber" to describe the way people have stopped listening to opposing views or ideas.
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As phrases are allowed: 'This is fine' as in the meme.
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Americentrism...
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Not heard that much, thus far but gathering steam for a late run, methinks - Trumpenproletariat
https://thesparkspread.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/todays-neologism-trumpenproletariat/
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