Hard News: Word of the Year 2011 -- The Vote!
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First (hey it's a word)
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Second. ... as in ..2nd best word.
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Man, it's hard to choose!!
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That's a good selection of words. My voting criteria - I look at words that have burst into popular culture in 2011 with a distinct new meaning, and that have a life offline as well as online.
As we have three hashtags in the list now, I wonder if there should be a separate prize for hashtag of the year. I mean, I've never heard anyone use "hash ar double-yew see twenty eleven" in speech so probably not a WOTY winner , but yet it was all over Twitter.
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Russell, could you list the nominees in the post?
It would make it easier to consider before voting.
Unless I've missed the official nominee announcement somewhere?
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Lilith __, in reply to
Russell, could you list the nominees in the post?
It would make it easier to consider before voting.
What he said.
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Sacha, in reply to
"hash ar double-yew see twenty eleven"
not much creativity or wit involved though
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... so hard to decide!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Russell, could you list the nominees in the post?
Good call. Doing that now.
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Ooooh. STV :)
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Ooooh. STV :)
Heh.
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Fracking and Phone hacking have full stops at the end.
Is it something to do with lit raytion? Rye ming slang?
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I'm pretty distraught that Ghost Jobs didnt get in....
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I really can't work out the fuss about 'munted'. It's not as though it's a new word for 2011, spontaneously springing from the rubble of Christchurch. It has been around for at least 20 years to my knowledge.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I really can’t work out the fuss about ‘munted’. It’s not as though it’s a new word for 2011, spontaneously springing from the rubble of Christchurch. It has been around for at least 20 years to my knowledge.
Of course. But it is a word that found its destiny in 2011.
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Gareth Davidson, in reply to
It's word of the year - not new word of the year. Otherwise it'd be a bit like awarding NZer of the year to a baby born in 2011...
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Emma Hart, in reply to
I really can’t work out the fuss about ‘munted’. It’s not as though it’s a new word for 2011, spontaneously springing from the rubble of Christchurch. It has been around for at least 20 years to my knowledge.
Steve, seriously, while we were digging our arses out of liquifaction, cooking in our garages and crapping in our gardens, we were also supposed to invent a new word to describe the situation? Sorry we didn't live up to your standards.
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James Butler, in reply to
Steve, seriously, while we were digging our arses out of liquifaction, cooking in our garages and crapping in our gardens, we were also supposed to invent a new word to describe the situation? Sorry we didn’t live up to your standards.
Whoa, I didn't read that into Steve's comment at all. I have to admit, I hadn't associated "munted" particularly with #eqnz until this thread. And I don't think that fact can/should take anything away from the experiences of those who had.
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Munted was well and truly claimed this year. The similarly frequent and #eqnz-linked "kia kaha" seems less fondly remembered here.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Whoa, I didn’t read that into Steve’s comment at all. I have to admit, I hadn’t associated “munted” particularly with #eqnz until this thread.
I'm quite surprised by that. I mean, when Bob Parker uses it ...
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James Butler, in reply to
I’m quite surprised by that. I mean, when Bob Parker uses it …
See, there's someone I don't pay a lot of attention to right there.
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Emma Hart, in reply to
I have to admit, I hadn't associated "munted" particularly with #eqnz until this thread.
I don't even.
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Emma Hart, in reply to
The similarly frequent and #eqnz-linked “kia kaha” seems less fondly remembered here.
it might have been frequent (I don't actually think it was as frequent) but it didn't have the longevity, and Word of the Year favours things that were either recent or persistent. Kia kaha didn't resonate down here the way "munted" did. Some people (not me) found it patronising.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Russell, could you list the nominees in the post?
It's about the word not the personality. Jeez, anybody would think this were the general election.
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Sacha, in reply to
It's about the word not the personality
bunga bunga
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