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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @08:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @08:22AM (#428738)

    > First of many Ad Hominem attacks in your post

    What is it about the ad hominem fallacy that dunces can't understand?
    Calling you a name is not an ad hominem, its just an insult.

    The ad hominem fallacy is "you are wrong because you are an idiot." But that's not what is going on here. Ikanreed is explicitly saying "you are an idiot because you are wrong." That's not an ad hominem, its an insult. A deserved insult, backed up by a logical argument. Which is the opposite of a fallacy.

    Now, like many dunces you will be tempted to say "but he's attacking the man, so its an ad hominem because that's what the latin translates too." Well dumbfuck, we ain't speaking latin here. We are using latin phrases that have a specific definition when used in english. If you want to whine that someone is insulting, just say they are insulting because "ad hominem" doesn't apply.