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Friday, May 05, 2006

Truthiness










The American Dialect Society chose the word "truthiness" as the word of the year 2005.

Truthiness refers to the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true as "I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart." Other meanings of the word seems to date as far back as 1824.

[Word of the Year]
*truthiness
the quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true.
*Katrina
all Katorina-related words.
*podcast
a digital feed containing audio or video files for downloading to a portable MP3 player. From the brand name MP3 player iPod + broadcast.
*intelligent design
*refugee
*Cruiselex
*Heck of a job
*brown-out
*disaster
*industrial complex

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