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posted by janrinok on Thursday November 17 2016, @06:04PM   Printer-friendly

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?


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 17 2016, @06:42PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday November 17 2016, @06:42PM (#428255) Journal

    First, stop lying.
     
    Why would they? The US public just clearly demonstrated that they don't care if you provably and repeatedly lie to their face.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @02:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @02:33AM (#428579)

    Are you referring to electing Trump? It'd be difficult to determine who lied more: Trump or Clinton. Trump likely has more general lies while Hillary has more deceptive lies. Not all lies are equal. Trump will get in your face and call you an asshole one day and then an angel the next. Hillary will call you an angel to your face and then proclaim you an asshole when you turn your back.

    When it comes down to asshole vs backstabber, I'll pick the asshole every time.