Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Word of the Year 2007: Te Qaeda

Shep Cheyenne

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:13:49 +1300

Must say this word worked me up somewhat.

"Some prominent blacks, like Julian Bond, call ''niggardly'' a ''perfectly good word.'' Others, like Mr. Wilkins and Jesse Jackson, feel that Mr. Howard should get his job back, but that such a confusing word could be avoided. ''You've got to be pretty…

InternationalObserver

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:22:41 +1300

it turned up in blog discussions without hours of the news breaking

Within?? (and you were dissing S.S.Trusts PR? tsk tsk!)

FletcherB

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:05:15 +1300

Might you be looking for the word "pawn" by any chance?

Robyn Gallagher

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:25:49 +1300

I thought the cultural relevance of the Open late cafe was good and properly diluted by 1995.

The other legendary Auckland late-night eatery, Brucies burgers, just recently closed. There's now something like a pawn shop in its space, bringing even more class to Victoria Street West.

Where will UB40 and…

Felix Marwick

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:04:31 +1300

Note to self. Must remember not to use double* twice in a post

Could be worse. Here's a wonderful twist on handy grammatical advice.

Don't never not use a triple negative

Lea Barker

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:21:39 +1300

This just in, Global Language Monitor has announced its word of the year at http://languagemonitor.com/

Obviously not as geo-topical as the NZ version, but it's "hybrid", which just edged out "surge" in the final months. Not surprising, since GLM tracks words and phrases in the media and on the Internet.…

Steve Barnes

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:37:56 +1300

Interesting (Netguide award winners 2005)
It may not have been the big awards but you trounced the "Big Boys" on HTML validation ;-)

Public Address Passed HTML validation
Xtra Streaming Failed HTML validation, 170 errors
TVNZ Failed HTML validation, 254 errors
XtraMSN Failed HTML validation, 239 errors
and last but…

noizyboy

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:33:19 +1300

yeah, I think they refer to the 2006 awards, which were confusingly held in May, meaning the best of 2006 was decided before half the year was even out.

And nice work on the valid HTML. ;)

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:18:40 +1300

I thought there was no awards at all in 2005?

You might be right. This confused me ...

http://interface-7.net/20060520/

LegBreak

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:18:25 +1300

From a sporting perspective I am relieved to note that “Reconditioning” rated higher than “Rotation” given that it was the more destructive of the 2 crimes.

The trimmed-down version of this on the Sportsfreak forum (no lavish prizes for the best post :) ) returned “choke” as the winner.

Steve Barnes

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:02:06 +1300

Note to self. Must remember not to use double* twice in a post

Steve Barnes

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:00:22 +1300

The whole ** of the year thing kinda leaves me at a loss most of the time. For several years there was a sign above the "Open Late Cafe" informing us that it was Metro's night spot of the year 1995 I guess that was ok if your idea of…

noizyboy

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:37:28 +1300

I thought there was no awards at all in 2005?

Pretty sure you won in 2003.

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:21:56 +1300

hey! you weren't best blog in 2004...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0411/S00187.htm

Oh, you're right. Some librarian chick was.

So ... we were 2003? And 2007 and 2007 definitely. Did we win it in 2005 too? I've lost track ...

Just checked: we did win in 2005.

noizyboy

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:52:02 +1300

hey! you weren't best blog in 2004...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0411/S00187.htm

Tom Ackroyd

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:44:09 +1300

end-of-show novelty spot

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:36:37 +1300

thanks for making the "ironic" point

Yes. I googled around yesterday and noted that it's been used as ironic shorthand by people on both sides of the debate.

Paul Campbell

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:03:54 +1300

thanks for making the "ironic" point

Russell Brown

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:59:24 +1300

... aside from the typo in the title (unless of course you're going for a late entry: 2007? huh, word that for a year!) ...

Sigh ... and once a headline is set on System I can't change it. I'll get the CactusLab guys to fix it soon.

But anyway…

linger

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:49:05 +1300

... aside from the typo in the title (unless of course you're going for a late entry: 2007? huh, word that for a year!) ...

Sam F

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:12:45 +1300

Not a bad result!

Grant McDougall

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:09:34 +1300

"Te Qeada" a very worthy winner and thankfully not one that reminds us of what a lemon the year's been sports-wise.

Public Address

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:09:34 +1300

Discussion from blog post.