Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2016 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Tom Ackroyd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=377804#post377804 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=377804#post377804 I'll get my coat ]]> Thu, 21 Dec 2017 23:14:59 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=377366#post377366 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=377366#post377366 Rob is clearly trying to get an unfair advantage for this year’s competition.
aaah it's 2016 not 2017 – WOTY usually comes round early to mid December dunnit – Damn! Will Russell accept our premature extrapolations or have we spilled our seed on barren ground ?
(- too OTT OT?)

]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:25:06 +1300 Trevor Nicholls https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=377364#post377364 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=377364#post377364 I went away for the weekend, returned to find this thread was top of the recents list and thought damn, how did I miss it. Relieved to discover it's last year's thread.
Rob is clearly trying to get an unfair advantage for this year's competition.

]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:33:38 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=377234#post377234 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=377234#post377234 What about whataboutism
– Cognitively dissonant yet resonant & redolently blameless, if not a little noisome.
2017 – such a good year to be on the gravels, on your knees!

]]> Fri, 24 Nov 2017 06:50:38 +1300 Rob S https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=377232#post377232 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=377232#post377232 jacindamania
or however the hell you're meant to spell it

]]> Thu, 23 Nov 2017 21:44:11 +1300 Tom Ackroyd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=377231#post377231 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=377231#post377231 2017 ]]> Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:13:41 +1300 Soon Lee https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369218#post369218 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369218#post369218 Sun, 18 Dec 2016 05:29:58 +1300 Dan Salmon https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369191#post369191 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369191#post369191 coprophilia
Nailed by Pope Francis.
"Pope Francis compared the spreading of fake news to "the sickness of coprophilia," the condition of being aroused by feces."

]]> Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:32:08 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369186#post369186 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369186#post369186 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:03:47 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369185#post369185 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369185#post369185 Oh noes they stole our word
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/15/post-truth-named-word-of-the-year-by-oxford-dictionaries

]]> Fri, 16 Dec 2016 09:39:18 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369184#post369184 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369184#post369184 hoofwanking bunglecunt
The Musical is waiting in the wings…
…or an illustrated moral tale for voters.
at worst a lesser demon of the ninth circle…

the cadence of the name reminds me of the early Fantagraphics comic book Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy (borrowed from Huxley )
Tom Tomorrow started there……

]]> Fri, 16 Dec 2016 08:47:30 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369180#post369180 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369180#post369180 Another that comes to mind:

"If a woman takes her clothes off and walks around in a group of men, what are we supposed to do if one of them tries to touch her [...] It's not nice and perhaps the stripper shouldn't have been hired, but I'm reluctant to…

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 19:24:32 +1300 John McCormick https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369178#post369178 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369178#post369178 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 19:04:44 +1300 Katharine Moody https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369177#post369177 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369177#post369177 Rust belt.
Wikileaks.
Emails.
In-tact glass ceiling.

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:51:11 +1300 Tony Kennedy https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369176#post369176 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369176#post369176 2/5
As in "woman graduate is equivalent to two-fifths of a full-time equivalent (male) vet

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:16:33 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369174#post369174 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369174#post369174 Hi folks. If a real zinger comes up after this time, I can add it in.

But I've culled down a longlist and sent it to Hadyn and we should be voting on it tomorrow morning.

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:59:30 +1300 Amberleigh Jack https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369172#post369172 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369172#post369172 Also, I forgot my explanation for Nasty Woman.
I may be imagining things but I don't really recall the gender divide being quite so publicly ... intense ... in other years as it has this year.
I think that one sums that up pretty well.

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:16:17 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369170#post369170 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369170#post369170 Migrants.
Syria.
Aleppo.
(It's probably too late, as it is for Aleppo's children.)

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:48:04 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369169#post369169 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369169#post369169 RIP’ should be on the shortlist

It will be.

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:02:08 +1300 Martin Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369168#post369168 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369168#post369168 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:56:10 +1300 Dennis Frank https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369167#post369167 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369167#post369167 I've noticed inequality featuring constantly in the media this year – and not just in this country. As in lots of people complaining about it (and nobody trying to eliminate it).

But if the criteria are replications of a meme & catchiness, then I'd bet on Brexit or Trump, with truthiness…

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:11:58 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369166#post369166 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369166#post369166 Drumpf

As employed by many American liberals to mock Trump, in turn validating this common trend of changing names to avoid discrimination in an insular culture.

Orange

Now something of a pejorative, despite the possibility of it being an unconscious effort to blur racial lines. Come Jan 20, in the…

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:03:23 +1300 william blake https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369165#post369165 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369165#post369165 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:38:11 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369164#post369164 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369164#post369164 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:46:16 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369163#post369163 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369163#post369163 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:41:32 +1300 Carol Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369162#post369162 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369162#post369162 Mobility poverty
www.modacitylife.com/blog/vancouver-didnt-wage-war-on-the-car

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 10:16:16 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369160#post369160 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369160#post369160 Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:14:28 +1300 TracyMac https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369158#post369158 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369158#post369158 I'm pretty entertained by the Aussie word (phrase) of the year: democracy sausage.

That is, from the sausage sizzle at the more evolved voting stations – the convention is to have your sausage AFTER you vote, I am given to understand.

It's a pretty recent term in Oz, although the…

]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 04:38:03 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369155#post369155 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369155#post369155 Ah, thanks! and here I was trying out other topical possibilities such as “active fault” or – having just watched the GNS presentations suggesting a higher-than-previously-estimated risk of failure within the next 10 years – “Alpine Fault”.
(Mind you, most statements about faults remain perfectly comprehensible on replacing one F-word…

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 22:42:12 +1300 krothville https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369153#post369153 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369153#post369153 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:40:41 +1300 Amberleigh Jack https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369152#post369152 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369152#post369152 You're right,definitely in need of capitals- my bad :)
#badombre could work too – that was fun :)

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 20:56:47 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369151#post369151 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369151#post369151 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:39:59 +1300 Amberleigh Jack https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369150#post369150 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369150#post369150 As a new word of the year player, can two words be a word?
If so I nominate "nasty woman" and "bad hombre" as my picks!

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:37:11 +1300 Greg Sands https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369148#post369148 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369148#post369148 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:14:44 +1300 Rebecca Gray https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369147#post369147 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369147#post369147 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:52:42 +1300 Chris Peters https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369146#post369146 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369146#post369146 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:17:46 +1300 BlairMacca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369142#post369142 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369142#post369142 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:07:22 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369141#post369141 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369141#post369141 Dunning-Kruger effect. I feel it isn’t well knownPfft, surely we’re all experts in it by now :?)
[In all seriousness, Kruger & Dunning 1999 is one of the most-cited papers in psychology.]

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:45:35 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369140#post369140 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369140#post369140 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:34:58 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369139#post369139 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369139#post369139 I’ve not noticed 4714 to be much crazier than any other year,
Just the usual Monkey business...

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:32:42 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369138#post369138 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369138#post369138 Flag and variants thereof featured in last year’s list, and (as subsequent results confirmed) we were pretty much over it even then. ]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:27:25 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369137#post369137 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369137#post369137 GNS generally refers to the Kaikoura quakes.

That is my sense of it as well, though we could call it 2016p858000, which is its GNS catalog ID

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:24:07 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369136#post369136 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369136#post369136 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:04:05 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369135#post369135 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369135#post369135 “confirmation bias”

It’s a good one Bart. I’ve not noticed 4714 to be much crazier than any other year, The UK’s on again off again relationship with a Europe they could never totally commit to in the first place is off again, more fake news and lies, and the USA…

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:37:11 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369134#post369134 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369134#post369134 Earthquakes start somewhere and then trigger faults in other directions. So while the first earthquake was in north Canterbury the energy release quickly travelled north as this youtube simulation shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1HWet9j070

GNS generally refers to the Kaikoura quakes.

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:07:56 +1300 Soon Lee https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369133#post369133 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369133#post369133 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:03:32 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369132#post369132 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369132#post369132 we need a collective name.
One seismic fits all!

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 07:38:34 +1300 Ethan Tucker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369131#post369131 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369131#post369131 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 07:25:42 +1300 JLM https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369130#post369130 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369130#post369130 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 07:23:17 +1300 Jacquelyne Taylor https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369129#post369129 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369129#post369129 In NuZealundish plus three BUA* inspired ( Biggest Unwalled Asylum-isms) as follows..
FACILITATION rather than corruption or bribe...
as confirmed in this article if not admitted with the SaudiSheikDownDeal http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/t1407322.shtml

UNDER REVIEW = buck being passed or issue delegated.
OIA'd = Overtly Ignored Acshully for as long as can be..…

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 05:05:56 +1300 Amy Tait https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369128#post369128 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369128#post369128 Dunning Kruger effect.

I feel it isn't well known, but seems to describe a lot of things this year.

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 02:39:49 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369127#post369127 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369127#post369127 Bubble-bursting
aka pop!ulism, of course.

(It’s like ordinary populism, but more irreversibly destructive,
and driven by some complete pricks.)

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 01:27:06 +1300 Ewan Morris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369126#post369126 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369126#post369126 Brexitrump – combines two of the major shocks of the year, and also useful to describe how one shock can top another ('X has brexitrumped Y').

Bubble-bursting – there's been much talk this year of people living in (political/cultural) bubbles, and being forced by events to confront the views of…

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 01:23:47 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369125#post369125 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369125#post369125 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:09:18 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369124#post369124 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369124#post369124 Not bad, though brings to mind the mountain range rather than the town.

Coastal Pacifuquakes, in honour of the railway line buried?

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:54:22 +1300 Trevor Nicholls https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369123#post369123 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369123#post369123 Which is why I think we need a collective name.

The Quaikouras.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:48:04 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369122#post369122 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369122#post369122 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:37:15 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369121#post369121 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369121#post369121 Kaikoura EQ which makes sense when we remember those who died. ]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:24:52 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369120#post369120 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369120#post369120 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:11:12 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369119#post369119 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369119#post369119 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:54:24 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369117#post369117 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369117#post369117 China china china china…..China


Trumpeted

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:38:27 +1300 Trevor Nicholls https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369116#post369116 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369116#post369116 A big shout-out to Checkpoint

Which reminds me that Mediaworks is probably candidate for Oxymoron of the year.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:24:08 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369115#post369115 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369115#post369115 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:19:51 +1300 Ewan Morris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369114#post369114 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369114#post369114 Populism.

Not very catchy, I know, but it encapsulates a lot about what's been happening politically this year.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:01:53 +1300 Trevor Nicholls https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369113#post369113 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369113#post369113 Pepe
alt-Nazi

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:54:50 +1300 Trevor Nicholls https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369112#post369112 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369112#post369112 Hamilton?

But only as a verb, surely.

Hamilton (the man) underpins the push for the electoral college to disavow Trump. Plus the musical about him which delivered a public rebuke cast as an appeal to the NoTrump.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:53:54 +1300 Ewan Morris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369111#post369111 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369111#post369111 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:47:08 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369110#post369110 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369110#post369110 I believe Hastings has lingering resentment that the 1931 Hawkes Bay EQ is known as the Napier EQ, although it was closer to Hastings, and the damage was worse there.

truthiness…get a response.

I See what you did there ;)

Hastings was avenged when the Napier hospital came down.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:46:11 +1300 william blake https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369109#post369109 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369109#post369109 Hamilton?

But only as a verb, surely.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:26:02 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369108#post369108 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369108#post369108 Algorithm

Our new ruler which cares not about truthiness, only clickability and sharability.
Related: meme. It doesn't have to make sense, only get a response.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:20:12 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369107#post369107 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369107#post369107 Slightly OT, but do we have a name for the sequence of disasters of November 14th? I’ve heard the M7.8 described as the Hanmer EQ, Cheviot EQ, Culverden EQ, Kaikoura EQ, also that the epicentre was closest to Ward…

I believe Hastings has lingering resentment that the 1931 Hawkes Bay…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:15:11 +1300 FletcherB https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369106#post369106 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369106#post369106 Also, as much as I hate the concept itself... I'm thinking my vote is for "post-truth" as the winner so far? Or maybe "fake-news"?

Brexit?- post-truth.
Trump?- post-truth.
"Make America Great Again"- post-truth
"I never said that" (despite unedited video/audio recordings of same)- post-truth.

Also, some of the other quite…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:00:32 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369105#post369105 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369105#post369105 #NoDAPL

One of 2016's very few victory cries.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:57:35 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369104#post369104 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369104#post369104 Fuckface von Clownstick

Fascism

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:56:29 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369103#post369103 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369103#post369103 AF is definitely word of the year in the gossip magsI’m at a loss here. When I see "AF" it’s a button on an OHC, and stands for "auto-focus" … so is that like a selfie? ]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:43:28 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369102#post369102 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369102#post369102 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:42:02 +1300 FletcherB https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369101#post369101 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369101#post369101 very junior partner in Cocksplat, Fucktrumpet and Numpty who claims he was a Prime Minister at some stage in his career

That is very probably who he worked for, but I believe you have the exact job-title a little over-accounted for in the syllable stakes? (but then, over accounting is…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:38:59 +1300 Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369100#post369100 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369100#post369100 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:18:06 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369099#post369099 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369099#post369099 Yes seclusion rooms have popped up all over NZ – who knew?

I also hate 'social investment' and fear we will hear more next year of the new PM's pet policy to privatise or delegate social services and share personal details of clients with whatever government agency or politician wants…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:14:36 +1300 Russell C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369098#post369098 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369098#post369098 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:02:31 +1300 Trevor Nicholls https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369097#post369097 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369097#post369097 Benghazemail
Trumpenfuhrer
Putinyhands
Cuck
Hamilton

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:43:41 +1300 Alex Coleman https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369096#post369096 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369096#post369096 I think this will be bigger next year

https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/805986971675828224

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:24:12 +1300 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369094#post369094 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369094#post369094 KEGACY
I just made that up so it has no legs. But you’d have to be drunk and wearing your best beer goggles to see any legacy this very junior partner in Cocksplat, Fucktrumpet and Numpty who claims he was a Prime Minister at some stage in his career…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:08:27 +1300 Sam Smith https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369093#post369093 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369093#post369093 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:49:09 +1300 Tom Ackroyd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369092#post369092 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369092#post369092 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:36:03 +1300 Tim Gray https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369091#post369091 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369091#post369091 Surely "tremendous", because everything surely has been.

Or "Putinism", coined I believe by TIME magazine.

Any correlation between these two words may or may not be coincidental.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:25:36 +1300 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369090#post369090 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369090#post369090 RIP

Hmmm. That could work.

Maybe 'ashtag it? #RIP

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:22:28 +1300 Moata T https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369089#post369089 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369089#post369089 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:15:54 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369087#post369087 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369087#post369087 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:54:40 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369086#post369086 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369086#post369086 I just read a cosmo for the first time in about 20 years. It was, I hate to say it, quite good. Fantastic article on emotional abuse in relationships, and associated definition of gas lighting. So that's twice I've heard that this year.

But as a result I'm going to…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:51:16 +1300 nzlemming https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369085#post369085 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369085#post369085 Actually, Cocksplat, Fucktrumpet and Numpty, which sounds more like a law firm.

This must happen.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:51:12 +1300 simon g https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369084#post369084 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369084#post369084 look, do you see? ]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:43:50 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369083#post369083 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369083#post369083 I nominate ¯_(ツ)_/¯ because WTF 2016

for that matter, WTF

I see that both Shrug and Face Palm were approved as emoticons in unicode 9.0 in 2016

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:42:44 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369082#post369082 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369082#post369082 ’Great!’
…as in Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’
and infinite variations on his standard wheedle:
“I have a great company, great company, we do great things, many, many great things, we’re gonna make jobs, great jobs, many, many great jobs…”

‘Great’ also manifests as ‘Tremendous’ and ‘Best’…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:34:27 +1300 Scott Ferguson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369081#post369081 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369081#post369081 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:27:55 +1300 Venetia King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369080#post369080 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369080#post369080 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:27:07 +1300 Cecelia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369079#post369079 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369079#post369079 Spox

Deplorable

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:03:20 +1300 Farmer Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369075#post369075 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369075#post369075 So, it must be so.

This is a difficult word to use correctly , as its full meaning is : –
" . . . .because there is no disagreement with all that I have , as yet, refrained from iterating , it therefore follows that . . . "

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:31:43 +1300 Rowan Crawford https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369074#post369074 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369074#post369074 I don’t normally nominate the words, but I fear we’re in danger of overlooking the contributions of our Scots brethren.

Ah! Weapons-grade plum! https://twitter.com/sueperkins/status/746281298285715456?lang=en

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:31:36 +1300 Andre https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369073#post369073 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369073#post369073 Wealth tax
Uber
Vote Chloe
MSM
Socialist
Euthanasia checkpoint
Swimmigration – when you are swimming in new migrants
Homelessness
Housing Crisis

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:21:44 +1300 Carol Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369072#post369072 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369072#post369072 Cockwomble

This is a woty not a reply

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:58:01 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369070#post369070 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369070#post369070 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:39:17 +1300 Jenny Kay https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369069#post369069 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369069#post369069 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:39:14 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369068#post369068 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369068#post369068 Gas lighting is valid concern. The term has a long history in some circles especially for how narcissists control women at home or at work

The Teen Vogue article is an interesting and valid use of the term, I think. It applies equally to what we know of Russia's disinformation…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:38:41 +1300 Jenny Kay https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369067#post369067 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369067#post369067 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:35:28 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369066#post369066 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369066#post369066 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:34:54 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369065#post369065 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369065#post369065 I don't normally nominate the words, but I fear we're in danger of overlooking the contributions of our Scots brethren.

Cocksplat, fucktrumpet and and numpty.

Actually, Cocksplat, Fucktrumpet and Numpty, which sounds more like a law firm.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:34:47 +1300 Jenny Kay https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369064#post369064 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369064#post369064 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:34:01 +1300 Jenny Kay https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369063#post369063 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369063#post369063 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:31:36 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369062#post369062 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369062#post369062 Probably “yuge” should be thrown somewhere in the mix, or under a passing bus

I'm surprised you seem to be the first to go there.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:31:33 +1300 Rebecca Gray https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369061#post369061 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369061#post369061 Could the word just be "2016"?
Usually the year's number is not spoken about as though it means much but this time it's taken on its own implications.

– Oh no, my favourite musician died!
– I know, 2016 right?
– Did you hear this other guy cancelled his tour?…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:30:02 +1300 Helga https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369060#post369060 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369060#post369060 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:29:02 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369059#post369059 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369059#post369059 RIP

Hmmm. That could work.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:28:38 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369057#post369057 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369057#post369057 Relaxed

Because the the word just might fall out of usage now....

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:20:09 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369055#post369055 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369055#post369055 Golden

This is a reply not a woty

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:07:45 +1300 simon g https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369053#post369053 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369053#post369053 Elite

Nominated because of the change in meaning. Previously, "a small, select group" (as in 'elite athletes at the Olympics').

Now it means anyone who has read a book, or likes to get their news from journalists who read them.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:48:15 +1300 Graeme Edgeler https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369052#post369052 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369052#post369052 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:38:03 +1300 KathrynB https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369051#post369051 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369051#post369051 Rascism.

Black lives matter, Trump, Brexit, French beaches, Brash ....

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:27:14 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369050#post369050 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369050#post369050 Clusterfucked seems to be the natural successor to 2011's munted; the only problem then is, where do we go if 2017 is worse? ]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:27:12 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369049#post369049 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369049#post369049 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:26:43 +1300 Josie McNaught https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369048#post369048 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369048#post369048 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:21:22 +1300 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369047#post369047 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369047#post369047 RIP

David Bowie
Prince
Leonard Cohen

Fuck 2016

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:17:10 +1300 kiwifarang https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369045#post369045 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369045#post369045 Recount
Propaganda
Pussy Grab
Quake Island
Build a Wall
Mainstream Media (a.k.a. fake news)
Russia (or bad bad evil Russia)

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:15:22 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369043#post369043 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369043#post369043 tbh not sure I have any words for this absolute fluster-cuck of a year.

Kaikoura's been clusterfucked (and will be again by central government, if the Chch experience is anything to go by).

Though the Brexit campaign, the rise of Trump, the fall of the "expert", and the spread of…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:10:04 +1300 Daniel Wilton https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369042#post369042 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369042#post369042 the best words if so we need to consult the Donald Bigly quick as apparently he has all of them ]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:01:25 +1300 Daniel Wilton https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369041#post369041 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369041#post369041 The rise of the Alt-Right has to be considered, as it only really became mainstream this year.

Brexit and Trumpageddon are both worthy

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:00:17 +1300 Katita https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369040#post369040 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369040#post369040 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:55:47 +1300 Katita https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369039#post369039 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369039#post369039 Here – I know Teenage Vogue – right?! ]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:55:16 +1300 Konrad Kurta https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369038#post369038 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369038#post369038 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:52:13 +1300 Chrys Berryman https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369037#post369037 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369037#post369037 " Trumpled [by a herd of elephants],Trumpatros[round our necks]
and 'legacy"[not a used Subaru,but what JK didn't leave behind]

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:50:51 +1300 WaterDragon https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369036#post369036 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369036#post369036 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:43:56 +1300 Ann Duncan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369035#post369035 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369035#post369035 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:42:59 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369034#post369034 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369034#post369034 I’m making a pattern with my suggestions
We are all of us on a quest for the golden meme
so that the whole is to the greater part
as that part is to the smaller part
looking for a certain ratio...
a proportion that is considered to be
particularly…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:42:50 +1300 James Littlewood* https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369033#post369033 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369033#post369033 Having said that:

#ChangeTheGovt

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:42:12 +1300 James Littlewood* https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369032#post369032 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369032#post369032 I know I'm jumping the gun, but I'm with

shit-weasel

I have nothing to add to that. Definitely. Weasels are an imported pest, devouring our natural resources and – by extension – our cultural and economic points of difference. And you couldn't really get more 2016 than that.

And, while…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:41:26 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369031#post369031 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369031#post369031 Mansplaining?

2010. Incidentally my sister is the heavyweight champion of mansplainers.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:35:24 +1300 Grant Shimmin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369030#post369030 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369030#post369030 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:33:34 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369029#post369029 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369029#post369029 wide boy flim
...sounds rakish, devil-may-care
Like some sort of scarlet pimp 'n' all....
...sounds like Boris Johnson!

;- )

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:30:41 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369028#post369028 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369028#post369028 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!

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:30:17 +1300 Shaun Lott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369027#post369027 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369027#post369027 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:29:25 +1300 Astro Puss https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369026#post369026 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369026#post369026 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:26:41 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369025#post369025 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369025#post369025 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:25:24 +1300 Katita https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369024#post369024 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369024#post369024 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:25:18 +1300 Carol Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369022#post369022 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369022#post369022 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:20:41 +1300 Felix Geiringer https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369021#post369021 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369021#post369021 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.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:15:05 +1300 JLM https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369020#post369020 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369020#post369020 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:14:16 +1300 Ian Pattison https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369019#post369019 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369019#post369019 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:11:06 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369018#post369018 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369018#post369018 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'.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:10:33 +1300 Vivid https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369017#post369017 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369017#post369017 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:10:13 +1300 Felix Geiringer https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369016#post369016 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369016#post369016 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:08:22 +1300 Judi Lapsley Miller https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369015#post369015 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369015#post369015 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:07:21 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369014#post369014 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369014#post369014 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?

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:03:11 +1300 Lynn Yum https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369013#post369013 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369013#post369013 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…

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:02:20 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369012#post369012 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369012#post369012 Shitgibbon

the feckless one

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:58:09 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369011#post369011 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369011#post369011 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:55:46 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369010#post369010 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369010#post369010 '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.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:55:30 +1300 william blake https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369009#post369009 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369009#post369009 Shit gibbon

Balloon suit

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:53:30 +1300 asnz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369008#post369008 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369008#post369008 xenophobic
dog-whistle

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:51:26 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369007#post369007 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369007#post369007 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:50:10 +1300 Shane Le Brun https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369006#post369006 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369006#post369006 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:49:37 +1300 mike gemmell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369005#post369005 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369005#post369005 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:48:15 +1300 mike gemmell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369004#post369004 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369004#post369004 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:44:12 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369003#post369003 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369003#post369003 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/

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:43:30 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369002#post369002 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369002#post369002 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:42:34 +1300 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369001#post369001 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369001#post369001 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:41:50 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369000#post369000 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=369000#post369000 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:38:41 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368999#post368999 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368999#post368999 Dead. It’s been a bigly deading year.

Slow-slip. Geological, but seems like a metaphor for Western society.

Subduction.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:37:12 +1300 Rowan Crawford https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368998#post368998 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368998#post368998 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.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:36:11 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368997#post368997 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368997#post368997 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:35:59 +1300 Tom Butlin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368996#post368996 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368996#post368996 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:35:44 +1300 Shane Le Brun https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368995#post368995 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368995#post368995 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:34:05 +1300 Jenny Kay https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368992#post368992 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368992#post368992 Awesome. Everything is "awesome" Especially Innovation.

Yes, 2016 is the year of Awesome Innovation!

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:32:12 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368991#post368991 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368991#post368991 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:32:09 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368990#post368990 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368990#post368990 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:31:35 +1300 dave c https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368989#post368989 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368989#post368989 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:31:07 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368988#post368988 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368988#post368988 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:30:45 +1300 Doug Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368987#post368987 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368987#post368987 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:30:20 +1300 Kebabette https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368986#post368986 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368986#post368986 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:25:10 +1300 Kebabette https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368985#post368985 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368985#post368985 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.

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:24:13 +1300 Lew Stoddart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368984#post368984 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368984#post368984 Hillary Clinton called it: deplorable.

L

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:23:34 +1300 Paul Brislen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368983#post368983 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368983#post368983 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:22:31 +1300 Iain Thorpe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368982#post368982 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368982#post368982 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:22:03 +1300 Felix Geiringer https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368981#post368981 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368981#post368981 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:20:20 +1300 Felix Geiringer https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368980#post368980 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368980#post368980 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:20:01 +1300 bob daktari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368979#post368979 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368979#post368979 clusterfuck

applies to just about everything this year

]]> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:19:23 +1300 Deborah https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368978#post368978 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368978#post368978 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:19:05 +1300 Deborah https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368977#post368977 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368977#post368977 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:18:35 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368976#post368976 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-5/?p=368976#post368976 Discussion from blog post.

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