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Oxford Dictionaries has declared "post-truth" as its 2016 international word of the year, reflecting what it called a "highly-charged" political 12 months. It is defined as an adjective relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than emotional appeals. Its selection follows June's Brexit vote [in the UK], and the US presidential election. Post-truth, which has become associated with the phrase "post-truth politics", was chosen ahead of other political terms, including "Brexiteer" and "alt-right".
[...] Oxford Dictionaries says post-truth is thought to have been first used in 1992. However, it says the frequency of its usage increased by 2,000% in 2016 compared with last year.
Mr Grathwohl said: "Fuelled by the rise of social media as a news source and a growing distrust of facts offered up by the establishment, post-truth as a concept has been finding its linguistic footing for some time," he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37995600
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2016
Would you have chosen something different?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday November 18 2016, @03:17AM
mcgrew: what possible self-interest could be involved here? And since your razor only trumps (shouldn't that be capitalized, now?) Hanlon's razor, which really is only a cynical restatement of Ockham's Razor, and mine is a double backflip Flying Camel Sowtoe reverse Hanlon's razor, you will have to concede on this one. Not a big deal. In fact, it is really useful that you point out the significance of various logic razors in the "post-truth" world!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @09:29AM
Pretty sure you mean "salchow" (saul-kow), named for its inventor, Ulrich Salchow. [wikipedia.org]
The dude was the Michael Jordan of his day, dominating his sport.
He was World Champion from 1897 through 1911, missing the gold only in 1898 and 1906.
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