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‘Truthiness' named word of the year
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — After 12 months of naked partisanship on Capitol Hill, on cable TV and in the blogosphere, the word of the year for 2006 is “truthiness.”
Shit. I mean, gosh darn it.
The word — if one can call it that — best summed up 2006, according to an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.
Not enough "taqiyya" votes. Too bad.
“Truthiness” was credited to Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, who defined it as “truth that comes from the gut, not books.”
It just hit me that there's a subtle implication lurking in there: books are bad. Wottan asstard. Lol. Truthiness means something very different to me and, I believe, others as well...
“We're at a point where what constitutes truth is a question on a lot of people's minds, and truth has become up for grabs,” said Merriam-Webster president John Morse. “‘Truthiness' is a playful way for us to think about a very important issue.”
It means that the truth, the actual truth, has been nuked in favor of what feels good. And I'm right, lol. Fuck Colbert.
Other Top 10 finishers included “war,” “insurgent,” “sectarian” and “corruption.” But “truthiness” won by a 5-to-1 margin, Morse said.
Gosh, reality words lost out to a fantasy word. Go figure.
Colbert, who once derided the folks at Springfield-based Merriam-Webster as the “word police” and a bunch of “wordinistas,” was pleased.
Time to suck up, bitch.
“Though I'm no fan of reference books and their fact-based agendas, I am a fan of anyone who chooses to honour me,” he said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
I am known to suck among the very best.
“And what an honour,” he said. “Truthiness now joins the lexicographical pantheon with words like ‘squash,' ‘merry,' ‘crumpet,' ‘the,' ‘xylophone,' ‘circuitous,' ‘others' and others.”
Coming from you that means, well, nothing.
Colbert first uttered “truthiness” during an October 2005 broadcast of “The Colbert Report,” his parody of combative, conservative talk shows.
Never seen it - except as excerpted by others. It's "hitman" theater - a.k.a. modern journalism.
Posted by: .com 2006-12-09
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