Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year: Credit Crunch
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Sue,
i feel inspired to whip up a batch of caramelized chili almonds, thus saving money whist being crunchy.
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Sue,
if it's O for awesome is it ok?
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Credit Crunch on You Tube? I liked this one:
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..."awesome"? Apparently visitors to NZ can't get over how often we say it and how multi-purpose it is. It's a word I've come to hate, personally.
I used to use it quite a lot, but strictly in an ironic kind of way. In the sense that the thing I'd be calling awesome was cheesy or ridiculous or somehow almost admirably absurd.
You know, like if they ever made a cereal that was called Credit Crunch, that would be awesome.
Personally, I have a real dislike of the phrase (very common in corporations these days) "going forward". I don't know exactly what it is about it, but it is certainly not awesome, not in any sense.
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@rochelle: Superb! Roflnui!
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O Rochelle, that was *so* - therapeutic!
Am sending the website all round te whanau - -
Any predictions about the words of 2009?
How about deeterate (it's Keyish) or more likely deeterashun? We'll probably see a lot of that. -
Stoked! Thanks, Russell - and thanks everyone for your erudite and encouraging company. Splendid. Hic.
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And I didn't even vote for it myself more than once. Doh.
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Any predictions about the words of 2009?
key-hole
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nice, but which definition are you using?
"source of National party policy"?
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"state of NZ economy"?
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"modern state house"?
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Grrrr... I hate Sideswipe.
Okay, carry on. -
Grinch.
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I know, I'm a pain in the ass. But my tolerance for the "hey, look at those foreign shmucks trying to accommodate us and our stupid language getting a phrasal verb wrong in the pluterperfect" joke has reached its capacity.
Do carry on though. Sideswipe. Whopeeeeeeeeee.
(I'll be excited when they make us.)
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(I'll be excited when they make us.)
You mean more than Russell linking to them?
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Any predictions about the words of 2009?
How about "Daddy state" or "Big Daddy" (in the Big Brother sense).
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Any predictions about the words of 2009?
Maybe something along the lines of "cautious optimism", or something like that to do with tenuous recovery. Or maybe that's more 2010.
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Any predictions about the words of 2009?
"Police Nanny" - as in, police state meets nanny state. You'll go along with what they say if you know what's good for you/want your pudding.
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I see Diana Wichtel in the Listener has already coined deteri-ate as her word of 2008.
So how about something more optimistic for an Obama-led 2009? Eg inter-country collaboration, global governance or good old Hope. -
I'm failry sure the PAS Word of Year made Sideswipe last year too.
I thought it was more notable that some of Tom Beard's comments on PAS were quoted National Radio , though can't recall which program, which topic and given that I listen online, am unsure if it was even a recent program....though obviously not notable enought to you-know, actually make a note of it.
I will have to make a resolution for 2009 about being lucid, though unsure if I need to distinguish between becoming lucid and becoming more lucid...oh well.
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It was MediaWatch last Sunday morning.
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what are your feelings about "awesome"? Apparently visitors to NZ can't get over how often we say it and how multi-purpose it is. It's a word I've come to hate, personally.
I hate it too, and yet am also guilty of overusing it -- to the point where my kids assume it's an all-purpose synonym for good, thanks, wow, no problem, yummy, etc etc.
New Year's resolution: to stop doing so. I had a moment of clarity at the bank yesterday, when we said to the teller we'd like to transfer some money from one account to another. "Awesome," was her reply.
When we filled in the form and brought it back up, she went one better, pronouncing us "Amazing."
Totally deadpan, not a shred of irony. This was in Hamilton, but still. It's word inflation, is what it is -- where do you go for real awesome, when "awesome" now just means OK?
I'm thinking of announcing an awesome freeze for 2009, to get the verbal currency back on track.
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It's a word I've come to hate, personally.
It's awful, terrible, horrible, I absolutely agree.
/me goes off to find Jonathan Swift essay on the decline of English since the reign of Queen Anne.
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Quoting myself:
Personally, I have a real dislike of the phrase (very common in corporations these days) "going forward".
...another one from the corporate world that I hate: "actioned", for when someone has completed or processed something, or simply done something.
Going forward, I'd like to action a freeze on 'awesome''.
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