WOTY festivities

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Scrooge McButters says:

Very good points, Dr. Bowie (and Prof. Preston): 

I would love to see spontaneous some examples of uses of "truthiness" that do 
not seem to show any self-conscious awareness that the user (student or 
otherwise) is performing a lexocographical stunt.

End-of-December cheers to all!

In a message dated 12/20/07 10:50:46 AM, db.list at PMPKN.NET writes:


> From:    Dennis Preston <preston at MSU.EDU>
> 
> > I vigorously oppose Ron's anti-frivolity stance. Which of our few
> > sillinesses will he oppose next? Looks like a slippery slope to me.
> 
> Well, not to mention, in all seriousness, that WotY != most likely to
> succeed.
> 
> It seems to me that there's good reason to have those categories
> separate--if the WotY is supposed to be that word or phrase that best
> captures the state of things in the preceding year, it seems to me that
> it may well end up being something forever tied to that one point in
> time, and so not continue in the language for very long.
> 
> p.s. I still occasionally see students who know nothing of the WotY vote
> use "truthiness" in their papers, results from Google's indexing
> notwithstanding.
> 




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