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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: 2) by RamiK on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:03PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:03PM (#428266)

    The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:26PM (#428279)

    Meanwhile, I'm post theological. Have been ever since I read this fine article:
        https://thehumanist.com/magazine/january-february-2008/features/the-post-theological-umbrella [thehumanist.com]
    There are other articles, but this one might have been first(??)