Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2016
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learnings: we took some learnings from the report but we don't really intend to address them.
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2016: Seems to be that this is the first time a year has widely been accredited as being complicit in bad things that have happened, the death Bowie & Prince, Trumps election and my favourite teacup that broke to name a few.
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Aleppo.............. :(
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fascism, we has it
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asnz,
xenophobic
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Shit gibbon
Balloon suit
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'Narrative', as in does this have one, and I don't want to be in it.
I would also like to second Echo Chamber, Trumpocalypse, and Shit-Weasel.
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I am with Hebe: morte. It has been far too popular this year.
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Sacha, in reply to
Shitgibbon
the feckless one
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Word salad
Seemingly full sets of coherent words put together, but when picked apart, revealed only few meaning bits. Like a grilled chicken salad put together as a whole, but only the grilled chicken is meant to be eaten and the greens ignore.
Wait, is that not how people generally consume grilled chicken salad???
Seriously though, I want to point out that the leading article still made references to 2015, not 2016, like “How will 2015 shape up? Well, that’s up to you.”
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I want to suggest 'woke' but I'm still not sure I can easily explain what it means, even to myself. I have a feeling that is why it hasn't really caught on.
'Housing crisis' as in we have one. Followed by 'bubble burst' as in when will it?
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"Post-truth" for me too, though I must admit to enjoying using "bigly" on occasion
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Closer to home, I think "Keyless" will come of age next year. For this year, perhaps the local word/phrase of the year is "housing crises".
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harambe
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ok one more, then I'll stop.
'white man' Is this the year that we have spoken out loud about the white man in the room? as in 'all of the board directors are white men'.
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Horrifying. This word was Hillary Clinton's response to Trump's equivocation on whether or not he would accept the election results. But it could equally apply to most things that have happened this year.
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JLM,
Trumped, because his election topped all the other disasters piling up over the year. What a year, a harbinger of things to come...
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My last contribution:
On a different vein, how about "2016". I think this year has had such an impact it deserves consideration as word of itself.
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Yeah, I'm with Jessica. Woke. Or even Woke AF.
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I like Brexiteer .... sounds rakeish, devil may care
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JessicaRose, in reply to
I should have added the AF. AF could be in it's own class really though.
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Cockwomblery.
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Post-truth explains both Trump and Brexit and has my vote. Formally known as shameless bullshit...
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Mansplaining? Or was that more last year. Manterupting doesn't roll off the tongue so well and I think they are the same thing.
I'm making a pattern with my suggestions, damn my echo chamber!
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
wide boy flim
...sounds rakish, devil-may-care
Like some sort of scarlet pimp 'n' all....
...sounds like Boris Johnson!;- )
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