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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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Pooh-Bah
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Me neither, neither. I think it's an awful word.
Podcast, or truthiness?
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Pooh-Bah
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Me neither, neither. I think it's an awful word.
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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