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Black Comedy: ‘Truthiness’ voted 2005 word of the year
A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2005 is “truthiness,” defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.
Heh. We already have better, such as Barking Moonbat and Kool Aid Kiddie. The clowns who coined this term are excellent examples, lol.
The American Dialect Society chose the word Friday after a runoff with terms related to Hurricane Katrina, such as “Katrinagate,” the scandal erupting from the lack of planning for the monster hurricane.

Michael Adams, a professor at North Carolina State University who specializes in lexicology, said “truthiness” means “truthy, not facty.”
ROFLMAO... YJCMTSU.
“The national argument right now is, one, who’s got the truth and, two, who’s got the facts,” he said. “Until we can manage to get the two of them back together again, we’re not going make much progress.”
That you think they are separate tells us all we need to know.
The group of linguists, editors and academics agreed the most useful word was “podcast” — a digital feed containing audio or video files for downloading to an MP3 player.
So why didn't you make it word of the yeah, huh? Morons.
In a runoff for the most creative word, “whale tail,” the appearance of a thong above the waistband, beat out “muffin top,” the bulge of flesh hanging over the top of low-riding jeans.
Those are, um, descriptive, lol.

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The article goes downhill fast after this point.
Posted by: .com 2006-01-07
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=139236