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Well, Erin's people chose "podcast." FWIW ... I think "truthiness" is too limited -- to one American (now, two, with the spin-off) TV show(s).
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well, we've needed something to replace "spin"...
that being said, I don't expect truthiness to last. too cute.
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I suppose, if I had ever actually heard it in the wild …
It might have been nice if they'd spelled sudoku right in the sub-hed.
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I'd never heard of the word until this thread. The CNN link didn't even tell me where it came from. Were I that sort of person, I might be tempted to make some snide crack about what the list's US-centric nature says about Minnesota U (motto: "hic sunt dragones"?), but I'm just not that sort of person.
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I'd never heard of the word until this thread.
Same here. I'd have voted for podcast.
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I'd never heard of the word until this thread.
Same here. I'd have voted for podcast.
Me neither, neither. I think it's an awful word.
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fwiw, here is the OED entry in question.. truthy Characterized by truth; truthful, true. Hence truthiness, truthfulness, faithfulness. c1800 J. H. COLLS Theodore I, You..are afraid Theodore your sweetheart shouldn't prove truthy. 1824 J. J. GURNEY in Braithwaite Mem. (1854) I. 242 Everyone who knows her is aware of her truthiness. 1848 Fraser's Mag. XXXVII. 404 Descriptions of country life and truthy touches of native manners. 1851 SIR F. PALGRAVE Norm. & Eng. I. 601 Regino was truthy and honest.
but, in truth; lot's of terms get overloaded.
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However, the WotYness of the word is not due to its newness (although it does not share a meaning with the 19th century word) nor to its beauty or wide-spread usage, neither of which it has, but to its summing up of political discourse in the year 2005. Per CNN it means the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.
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-- 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.
Maybe a panel of linquists should have written the sentence above. Then maybe someone other than Faldage could understand it.
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Me neither, neither. I think it's an awful word.
Podcast, or truthiness?
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Podcast, or truthiness?
"Truthiness." "Podcast" works for me: it's useful, sounds fine, and doesn't ring bull.
"Truthiness," apart from being repulsive in its contemporary incarnation, sounds a little like standing in for "lies," "lying," "liar," "con," "wishful thinking." Who needs it? What's it covering up?
Fact is, though, that I don't watch, so I ain't heard.
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