anyone catch the Colbert Report tonight?

[Orin Hargraves]

>Poster:       Michael Adams <madams1448 at AOL.COM> wrote (in part):

>. . . the word is a good
>choice: it is zeitgeisty and it participates in burgeoning use of -y
>suffixed forms. Anatoly Liberman apparently endorses it among important
>2005 words, and that's saying something.

Appropos of the zeitgeisty part: On CNN last night ("Anderson Cooper 360"), in
a story about the James Frey pseudomemoir, there was an extended discussion
about truth vs. facts in the writing of memoirs, and although the participants
(Cooper and Carole Radziwill) weren't clued up about "truthiness," it was
quite interesting how closely their conversation brought out the very
distinctions that brought this word into the limelight. Further proof that ADS
does indeed has its finger on the pulse!

Orin Hargraves