Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word of the Year - and Decade!
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"100% Pure," quotation marks included.
And a nod to the Hekia Parata and the Gunning-Fog Index with "AAARRGGGGGH!"
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Is "100%" a word?
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Argh, Rowan, you bastard!
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Rowan Crawford, in reply to
I wondered if it was too much of a gimme!
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it's "complicated" - used whenever one doesn't want to explain anything to anyone ever
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Toby,
brainfade
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2012 - the year of "breach"
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Greg Wood, in reply to
"can't recall, sorry"
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Kiosk.
Supermoon. [sic]
Renewal. -
Leak. Ng.
Heh.
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"fetching"
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Leveson.
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Brownleebensraum
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rejuvenate
Parata-speak for closing ChCh schools.
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JWT1,
Fiscal Cliff
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Ross Mason, in reply to
Fiscal Cliff
Nah. 2013. Save it.
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I feel like this year so many events have had their own hashtag to define them that I'll nominate
Hashtag
as word of the year.
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proletard
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Just to be first for Decade cos others have picked them....
Google.
Facebook
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Robyn Gallagher, in reply to
brainfade
I second this! I love that it's pretty much become a standard description in the media for John Key's inability to diplomatically answer a question he'd rather not answer.
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Oh hell, I feel compelled to join in. I need to propose this for Word of the Decade:
Data
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Glenn Pearce, in reply to
Breach
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Robyn Gallagher, in reply to
I feel like this year so many events have had their own hashtag to define them that I'll nominate
Hashtag
Events having hashtags of their own is not new for 2012. Afterall, #eqnz was a nominee in both 2010 and 2011. What is new for 2012 is "hashtag" becoming a word in its own right. People talk about hashtags without needing to gloss what it means. And check out the IRL spoken use of such lol phrases as "hashtag woteva". And then there's the news that a new parent had (maybe) named their child hashtag. Yeah, the word has become its own thing in 2012. #hashtag
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Hobbit
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
Yeah kinda what I was getting at but said more eloquently
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