Hard News: The Public Address Word of the Year 2013
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Ubuntu. A great word that will become better known now Obama has spoken it. Not the operating system, nor the health clinic in Khayelitsha, a huge township of Cape Town.
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Leak.
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Clictivism? Passive activism by liking things on facebook. Admittedly I haven't heard this overused yet.
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Emma Hart, in reply to
Clictivism?
I have to admit, I initially misread that.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I have to admit, I initially misread that.
You're not the only one.
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I'm really keen on Twitter Aunties (#twitteraunties) because it's a local movement using social media to bring people and resources together, as if by magic. Not to overlook the huge amount of work it's been for Jackie and the other Aunties, but this is a contemporary phenomenon. Traditional methods would simply not have worked like this.
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Ross Mason, in reply to
You’re not the only one.
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"Houston. We have a problem."
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Yeah ... nah
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headdesk? Not the word as such, just for its usefulness as a one-word 2013-in-review.
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Slacktavism - more commonly heard term meaning the same as clicktavism.
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"Perfect Season" seemed to dominate last month
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"A polite call to the advertisers".
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Sue,
twerking
and Lordedoes a Person count as a word, becuase so
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Sj, in reply to
+ 100 for Feminism and for Lorde, who has helped to bring it back this year - and how!
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Sacha, in reply to
royalty counts
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Sue,
+1 for penis beaker
it was one night of glorious fun watching it travel around the internet -
Samuel Scott, in reply to
Ha, no just a typo. But Wegege is pretty good.
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Penis Beaker.
The beaker part is pure science. So in the interests of science and some bedside experimenting.......
For those who question shall we say - the 6 inch or 12 inch Sub - one could use such a device to carry out Archimedes experiment and thus discover the volume of said Sub.
I know, it's sinking it to the depths...
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Mandela.
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For word of the year try "Report".
There have been so many disasters, failures, in most spheres or "governance" – all that happens is there is another report in response and no solution or change in policy.
Novapay, The Dunny Leak, The ongoing privacy failures, The Bain Report, The further report on the Bain report, The Len Saga, the Police were waiting for one etc, etc
Also I am sad that First Citizen, Mr Wow himself, John (in the key of awesome) Key wasn't time magazine's person of the year. I needed to share it somewhere.
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I'd like "meeting in the Ngati Whatua room" to become our local "discussing the Ugandan situation."
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Learnings.
There's a lesson in there somewhere.
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Also, I have so many feels about these words.
FEELS.
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Botulism.
So many of the above seem to be of the moment rather than the year, alternatively old if not perennial, but botulism seems one to savour, so to speak, for 2013.
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
#twitteraunties is at least six months old........
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