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Truthiness
Status: New word
The American Dialect Society has announced its words of the year for 2005 (links to a pdf file). A number of them are relevant to the study of hoaxes. For instance, the word of the year is Truthiness:truthiness: the quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true.
I suppose the opposite of truthiness would be hoaxiness. A few of the other words of the year include:
flee-ancée: runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks.
Whizzinator: a trademarked urinating device using a realistic prosthetic penis and synthetic urine in order to pass a drug test.
Bumper Nutz: fake testicles hung from the rear end of a vehicle.
In Hippo Eats Dwarf I have a lot of word definitions like this. I included Whizzinator, but truthiness and flee-ancée are new to me, so they didn't make it in. Nor did bumper nutz, even though I knew what these are. (Prankplace, that company I have affiliate links to, actually sells them.) If there's ever a second edition of the book, I'll put them in. (via The Presurfer)
Update: As quite a few people have now pointed out, Stephen Colbert coined the meaning for "truthiness" used in the ADS's definition.
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Categories: Literature/Language Posted by Alex on Mon Jan 09, 2006 |
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Remember, folks, the man who brought you truthiness, or at least brought truthiness out into the light, returns tonight: Stephen "The Truth" Colbert.
Colbert Nation...Hoooooooooooooooo!
Posted by TheMatt on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 11:54 AM
Colbert Nation...Hoooooooooooooooo!
"...Bumper Nutz: fake testicles hung from the rear end of a vehicle."
Something else I didn't know I needed.
I've seen bras for cars at the auto parts store (I don't get that one, either); now I guess they also need jock straps.
Posted by Big Gary in the northern hemisphere in Dallas, Texas on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 01:45 PM
Something else I didn't know I needed.
I've seen bras for cars at the auto parts store (I don't get that one, either); now I guess they also need jock straps.
Blah, those prankplace ones are junk; too brightly colored. The best ones are the old socks with marbles in them.
Posted by Citizen Premier in spite of public outcry on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 03:57 PM
Bumper nutz = pathetic loser
Posted by NeoCleo on Mon Jan 09, 2006 at 07:28 PM
I believe that "truthiness" comes from The Colbert Report on Comedy Central.
Posted by Cranky Media Guy on Tue Jan 10, 2006 at 04:57 AM
Dear Mr. Man-who-runs-this-website,
I am the unofficial, o.k. well I'm just a guy. But the Colbert Nation is offended by this posting for it was not approved by Mr. Stephen Colbert. Yes he may have invented a word that is now in the dictionary, but that doesn't mean you can use it without his permission. You have been warned.
Signed,
Phil McBaggypants
Posted by phil mcbaggypants in middle o' nowhere on Mon Jan 16, 2006 at 10:01 PM
I am the unofficial, o.k. well I'm just a guy. But the Colbert Nation is offended by this posting for it was not approved by Mr. Stephen Colbert. Yes he may have invented a word that is now in the dictionary, but that doesn't mean you can use it without his permission. You have been warned.
Signed,
Phil McBaggypants
Yes, it's awfully important to get permission to use words that are in the dictionary.
Getting permission to use words in the dictionary is overly important yes. It's Colbert Nation code of conduct. I've had to get permission for 29 words in this entry.
Signed,
Phil McBaggypants
Posted by Phil McBaggypants in Wonderopolis on Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 08:03 PM
Signed,
Phil McBaggypants
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