Public Address Word of the Year 2008
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Sue,
obama
no extras just the plain ole obama
although i am extremely fond of obamarama
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Sue,
something special just for giovanni who'd
like meme banned
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When a word gets spelt in polystirene it's the death knell, I tell you. Nobody will be using it in, oh, two weeks from now.
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Tosh.
What will happen, is that people will spell their own names in polystyrene, take photos of it, post it on livejournal, and call it a poly-name-meme.
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Given recent threads, I'd like to nominate "false equivalence" as a PAS phrase of the year. Famously applied by someone to almost anything Craig Ranapia posts, to the point where everytime I see it I bypass the meaning and wonder if I should make a drinking game out of its many occurrences.
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wonder if I should make a drinking game out of its many occurrences
Not bad judging criteria.. :)
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Okay folks, here's a finalists' list. I'll pass it on to Hadyn, who has kindly created a groovy little voting thing in Google Docs and hopefully have voting going by tomorrow:
So, the list. Thoughts? Bear in mind that I'm probably looking to take words out than add them at this stage ...
Change
Hope
"Credit crunch"
Crunch
Crisis
Climate
Melamine
Rofflenui/Roflnui
Trust
Issues
"Going forward"
Maverick
Obamania
Bailout
Slippery
Meltdown
Infrastructure
Liquidity
Obamarama
"Labour Plus"
"Labour Light"
Emissions
"No"
Kitteh
Absolutely
"Nanny state"
"Hockey mom"
"Yes we can"
Twitter
MACTional
Defnlee
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So, the list. Thoughts?
I think it's "Labour lite".
If you're wanting to get rid of some, my suggestion for that would be "Going forward" (apologies to whomever proposed it). It seems pretty generic, not really 2008 etc. That could obviously be recognised with voting (i.e. few will vote for it), but if you're trying to make voting simpler, I give that one the chop.
Maybe also Obamarama. Obamamania got way more traction, and one should be enough.
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And I obviously meant to write Obamania there; however, given my typo got more traction than Obamarama (according to the number of google hits), I think even my argument is somewhat vindicated.
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These also seem to be very generic and long-standing words:
change, hope, climate, trust, issues. -
I don't want to knock the list in any way, but seeing it in one block like that really brings home what a depressing year it's (largely) been.
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I don't want to knock the list in any way, but seeing it in one block like that really brings home what a depressing year it's (largely) been.
You gotta rofflenui not to cryenui.
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Is "Yes we can" related to / derived from "I can has" ?
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Obamania
Out of curiosity, was it the Daily Show which first popularised the term? I remember they did a sketch on it back in early January 2007.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=81465&title=obamania
Actually, looking back on that video, it's amazing how many of the FOX/neocon smears in Obama were already in place. Of course, Slate would go even further and create an entire vocabulary based on the possibilities...
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My favourite US political neologism of the year is still the Daily Show's "10,000 McCainiacs".
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3410,
"Yes we can has changeburger?"
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Hey,
What happened to "volatility" ?
I found 2008 to be a very volatile year.
Cheers,
Brent. -
I must admit that, having a chance to vote t'other day, tried for one I suggested (crunch) but although it was on the list it don't appear in the choice box. The onomatopoeic quality helps me to like it. I 'll go sulk now cos I accepted Credit crunch and now I don't want that but alas I have voted.
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