Public Address Word of the Year 2008
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Just plain “Credit”
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JCDC,
smiling assasin
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WS,
” you know what ?”
I KNOW ..not a word, but another Americanism slipping in, listen to americans use it to precede a reply( “no i DON’T know what ! thats why i’m bloody well asking you ! ” ) , like the odious “like"…. it’ll be here soon enough – going forward. -
icon going forward
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poogate
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Obamarama
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Labourlite was a new word in the year and is not likely to be used again.
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Stimulus package.
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Can you too be a ‘Rodney’?
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” you know what ?”
Ah, but that has a useful purpose, as a precursor. For example: ‘you know what? Bite me.’ If you just said ‘bite me’ with no preamble, it wouldn’t have that whole ‘call and response’ insult thing going on, and it wouldn’t be nearly as satisfying.
‘Stimulus package’ makes me think of dirty things. Am I alone in that?
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Lyndon: bravo, sir. I believe that should get a special judge’s award for outstandingly non-compliant entry allowed on grounds of brilliance.
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Lyndon: bravo, sir. I believe that should get a special judge’s award for outstandingly non-compliant entry allowed on grounds of brilliance.
Agreed. That was superb.
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Allow me to toss in “Labour Plus”.
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Ta.
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Surely “issues”. No two minutes pass on Morning Report without its being used. People are not “sick”; they have “health issues”. Organisations are not understaffed or shorthanded; they have staffing issues. Sometimes people just have issues – as Helen Clark was said to have with Brian Connell so he was dropped. Issues are usually around things, so that if you find “health issues” too bald and abrupt, you can have issues around health. Count ’em, tomorrow. This is not the most overused word; it is, after “the” “a/an” and “and” the most used word.
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troop surge – or was that last year? How long has that bloody war been running anyway? How quickly time dulls recollection.
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sea ice.
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“Credit crunch” was a new one on me this year.
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Surely “issues”. No two minutes pass on Morning Report without its being used. People are not “sick”; they have “health issues”. Organisations are not understaffed or shorthanded; they have staffing issues.
And Maori and Pacific Islanders apparently aren’t human beings with lives. They have “issues” (that are covered a Maori issues correspondent and a Pacific issues correspondent), but don’t we all?
I have to agree with you, Mr Calder – its turning into the new “lifestyle”. (And why is it that white middle-class heterosexuals have lives, while the rest of us have ‘lifestyles’ – as if everything you do is as trivial, and ultimately worthless, as picking whether you’re going to have Thai or Chinese for dinner.)Allow me to toss in “Labour Plus”.
And may I raise you a hearty fuck off to “flip-flop” and throw in “Labour-lite” for free?. Sorry, but a mature political culture has got to start saying that changing your mind – or not adopting extreme positions to keep the media bitch pack amused – isn’t some horrible defect. At least not if you’re an adult.
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Something from the under 12s:
“Chillax.”
In equal measures inevitible, predictable and charming.
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Emmissions
TolerenceNext thing you know ACT will be campaigning for greater Litterecy!
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And from the Peters file:
“No.”
Surely, this will enter the language in its rightful place, alongside
“Yeah, right.”
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Liquidity, liquidity, there’s nothing like liquidity…
… Our Dollars are entirely bucked;
Our Pounds are lacking quiddity.
In Commerce (and in Finance too)
The balance sheets look fair:
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Liquidity’s not there!I am so happy to have prompted this.
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Apologies for doublepost…
“Chillax”
This one’s not really that new, sadly – I’ve seen it around for a few years. Nonetheless, awesome.
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1. bailout
2. beached as
3. lipstick on a pig
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