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Home Front: Culture Wars
Black Comedy: ‘Truthiness’ voted 2005 word of the year
2006-01-07
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.

...more...

The article goes downhill fast after this point.
Posted by:.com

#8  don't forget....Chomsky's a linguist

...and a lot of his stuff has since been debunked. If you use Chomsky as a reference, for anything, be prepared to get laughed at.
Posted by: Qwerty   2006-01-07 22:17  

#7  Having lived in Madison for 20 years, I can testify there are a number of people here in "69 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality" who think the truth and the facts are separate: "We progressives already have the truth. Don't confuse us with facts."
Posted by: mom   2006-01-07 22:11  

#6  "Forgeries are factual" D.Rather
Posted by: Inspector Clueso   2006-01-07 17:19  

#5  Raj, don't forget....Chomsky's a linguist.

Linguists always struck me as the kind of guys who know a lot about how language is put together, but can't speak more than maybe one passably. Kind of like having a virgin lecture you about sex. ;)
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-01-07 13:23  

#4  wasn't it Moynihan who said: "everyone is entitled to their own opinions, what they are not entitled to is their own set of facts"?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-01-07 12:31  

#3  â€œThe 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.”

Get rid of the dimbulbs who call themselves "progressives", and you'll get the two back together again very quickly.

This sounds like the same band of dipshits who gave us the brilliant idea of teaching "Ebonics" in school...

Posted by: Dave D.   2006-01-07 11:50  

#2  "...who’s got the truth and, two, who’s got the facts,"

This crap is from a linguist?
Posted by: Raj   2006-01-07 09:30  

#1  Arrrggghhh.

The Link.
Posted by: .com   2006-01-07 05:35  

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