Public Address Word of the Year 2008
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Three pages of comments and no "Credit Crunch" yet!
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arse!!! there it is near the top of the page.
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Ranapian.
An overblown, expletive-laden response to a relatively innocuous observation.
As in, "When the reporter asked Mr Peters to comment on the latest polling figures, he went all Ranapian on his arse". ;)
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Liquidity, liquidity, there's nothing like liquidity...
... Our Dollars are entirely bucked;
Our Pounds are lacking quiddity.
In Commerce (and in Finance too)
The balance sheets look fair:
But when they try to operate -
Liquidity's not there!Damn. Arrived too late for me to put in the BIM!
[Time for] Change
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Is there a difference between a “credit crunch” and a “credit squeeze” ?
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Is "work-life balance" last year?
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Or several years ago.
Instead I'll nominate "learnings". -
Sue,
kitteh?
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'Stimulus package' makes me think of dirty things. Am I alone in that?
Nope. Dave Letterman, for one.
On the word thing, I'd like meme banned. But I can see it's just not going away.
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Rofflenui
Hey is it ok to vote for your own neologism? I've never been in a position to do so before but I'm proud as punch that others have already nominated it.
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The balance sheets look fair:
But when they try to operate -
Liquidity's not there!John Clarke did something very similar to this...
My tape of it is buried somewhere under a pile of magazines but I can recall the line:
__Shout 'Raffle!' in a crowded room
Liquidity's not there.__ -
'Stimulus package' makes me think of dirty things. Am I alone in that?
Touchy subject.
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"tired"
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Is there a difference between a “credit crunch” and a “credit squeeze” ?
One reduces your credit to ash, the other produces an indigestible pulp.
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Fresh
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There is absolutely no question that 'absolutely' is absolutely THE word for 2008. 'Absolutely' has proved to be the absolutely indispensable word is the lexicon of anyone making a pronouncement on absolutely anything - absolutely dahling.
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For its sheer implanted pervasiveness across the NZ media for a particular period of time and purpose, lets hear it for ..... 'Nanny state'
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Belt,
No
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C runch
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Newsprint - you am on to it
Obamania - word of the year.
Going forward - this insipid yet repellent (if such a combination exists) phrase plays no part in my plans going forward.
BTW: does anyone else become irascible on hearing the phrase "PC gone mad"? Surely a bigger threat to linguistic freedom comes from the purveyors of management-speak such as "restructuring" and "down-sizing". I'd rather have a "PC-er" replacing "midget" with "little person" than a mendacious CEO talking about "expanding our global franchise".
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Mr Goodfellow, you needs to move to Welli where your vocab would fit right in. :)
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This is my first time public address system, and the two words I would like to promote would be:
(1) NO
(2)TRUST -
I like Tariana's " Naughty boys made good "
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We mustn't forget 'hockey mom'...
our late winter and early spring months would have been so much less enjoyable without her...
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Sorry ,not Tariana it was Meturia from the Green Party
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