What were the words that marked our year?
Daniel was there for the serious, the social, and the silly at the American Dialect Society’s annual Word of the Year vote.
Hedvig and Daniel discuss all the words on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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American Dialect Society: 2018 Word of the Year is tender-age shelter as voted by American Dialect Society (PDF)
https://www.americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/2018-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf
“Single-Use” Really Is the Word of the Year We Deserve – VICE
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/mbyjkv/single-use-really-is-the-word-of-the-year-we-deserve
‘Floss’, ‘VAR’ & ‘Vegan’ – #CollinsWOTY 2018 is here! – New on the blog – Word Lover’s blog – Collins Dictionary
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/word-lovers-blog/new/floss-var-vegan-collinswoty-2018-is-here,452,HCB.html
90.5% of Plastic Has Never Been Recycled | The Inertia
https://www.theinertia.com/environment/90-percent-of-plastic-not-recycled-environment-oceans-pollution-statistic-of-the-year/
‘Toxic’ Is Oxford’s Word of the Year. No, We’re Not Gaslighting You.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/arts/toxic-oxford-word-of-the-year-2018.html
‘Misinformation’ is crowned Dictionary.com’s word of the year – CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/26/us/misinformation-dictionary-word-of-the-year-2018-trnd/index.html
Australian National Dictionary Centre’s Word of the Year 2018 | Ozwords
http://ozwords.org/?p=8643#more-8643
Canberra Bubble named 2018 Word of the Year by Australian National Dictionary Centre – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-13/australian-word-of-the-year-canberra-bubble/10611238
“Canberra bubble” coined word of the year | SBS News
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/canberra-bubble-coined-word-of-the-year
“Misinformation” is Dictionary.com”s word of the year | Poynter
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2018/misinformation-is-dictionary-coms-word-of-the-year/
‘Misinformation’ picked as word of the year by Dictionary.com | Science | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/26/misinformation-word-of-the-year-dictionarycom
‘Justice’ Prevails as 2018 Word of the Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/justice-word-year-merriam-webster.html
German language association names “Hot Age” Word of the Year in nod to climate change | Clean Energy Wire
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-language-association-names-hot-age-word-year-nod-climate-change
The words that defined 2018 – Columbia Journalism Review
https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/word-or-the-year-2018.php
“We Need Wall”: Why Kirstjen Nielsen Sounds Like the Hulk – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/we-need-wall-why-kirstjen-nielsen-sounds-like-hulk/578845/
Pelosi on Trump: We could plant flowers on border and he’d say, ‘I got my wall’ | Chicago Sun-Times
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/sweet-speaker-pelosi-trump-flowers-border-wall-government-shutdown-state-of-union/
Trump says he’s a nationalist: What it means, why it’s controversial
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/24/trump-says-hes-nationalist-what-means-why-its-controversial/1748521002/
‘Use That Word!’: Trump Embraces the ‘Nationalist’ Label
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/us/politics/nationalist-president-trump.html
Talk of a ‘Whitelash’ Revives a 1960s Term – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/talk-of-a-whitelash-revives-a-1960s-term-1479479174
What is blackfishing? | The Week UK
https://www.theweek.co.uk/98291/what-is-blackfishing
“Blackfishing”: A problematic trend where people pretend to be black – National | Globalnews.ca
https://globalnews.ca/news/4702185/what-is-blackfishing/
Everything you need to know about the catfishing epidemic | Digital Trends
https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/its-catfishing-season-how-to-tell-lovers-from-liars-online-and-more/
What Is “Big D*ck Energy”? Pete Davidson Has The Internet Obsessed
https://www.elitedaily.com/p/what-is-big-dck-energy-pete-davidson-has-the-internet-obsessed-9600358
The meaning of BDE, or Big Dick Energy, explained – Vox
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/6/27/17506898/big-dick-energy-explained
St Kilda beach rally: far-right and anti-racism groups face off in Melbourne | Australia news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/05/far-right-and-anti-racism-groups-face-off-in-melbourne-flashpoint
Detecting ‘deepfake’ videos in the blink of an eye
https://theconversation.com/detecting-deepfake-videos-in-the-blink-of-an-eye-101072
Transcript
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12 February 2019 at 9:22 am
Racially charged. I have seen it used in a context that is not racist but racial. Like “Liquor stores in my area are all run by Sihks.” (Sihks being a religion not a race is a whole different issue.) This is a factual statement that was started 50 years ago by certain tax laws and then continued by cultural momentum. It’s not racist but its kneejerks a lot of people. I understand “racially charged” as something that is race adjacent that may upset people because of the adjacency.
12 February 2019 at 9:39 am
“Deleted family unit” is a good term because some people need to be removed from what you consider family. My 12 year old cousin was very very (worse then I’m willing to type) bad raped and murdered by someone her grandmother was friends with. That deleted family unit tried to excuse his action by calling her a “slut” . Sometimes people need to be straight removed.