AP: Linguists Vote 'Truthiness' Word of 2005

[Rose Siding]

ALBUQUERQUE -- A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2005 is "truthiness," defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.

The American Dialect Society chose the word Friday after a runoff with terms related to Hurricane Katrina, such as "Katrinagate," the scandal erupting from the lack of planning for the monster hurricane.

Michael Adams, a professor at North Carolina State University who specializes in lexicology, said "truthiness" means "truthy, not facty."

"The national argument right now is, one, who's got the truth and, two, who's got the facts," he said. "Until we can manage to get the two of them back together again, we're not going make much progress."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/06/AR2006010602152.html

[liberalpragmatist]

1. So Stephen Colbert was right!

Ha!

[Cocoa]

2. Stephen Colbert is ahead of his time

http://mp.danwho.net/index.php?id=colbert_truthiness

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. "truthiness" means "truthy, not facty." LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Such a sophisticated definition. Gotta Google this guy.

[Wordie]

8. I predict a wave of calling posts "truthy" or "facty" here on DU! LOL

I predict that I will use the words myself! This is really funny.

[crispini]

4. Wow. Colbert rocks.

[PSPS]

5. Seems cromulent to me!

[Sandpiper]

6. Anything that embiggens our vocabulary

Is a cromulent addition to the language.

;)

[Rose Siding]

7. In 2000, they messed up by choosing "muggle"

I wonder if they considered "strategery"

They pegged "dot-com" in 1999, and "blog" in 2002


http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/37402.html

[madokie]

9. the truthy is the facty will come out