two more late entries for WOTY (if they take off)

[Laurence Horn]

Re "occupy":  That's certainly a major contender, I'd think.  Now it's even spawned a reversative twin, "unoccupy" (as I'm sure Ben has noticed), with or without hyphen:  
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2364466.shtml?cat=504

LH


On Nov 23, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Alice Faber wrote:

> But lockouts have been part of the labor/management landscape, in sports
> as in society in general, for years and years. The concept isn't new,
> and neither is using the word "lockout" for it.
> 
> My nominations for WOTY would be "occupy" and "mic check". While the
> terms themselves aren't new, the usage is new, in both cases.
> 
> On 11/23/11 2:18 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>> If we are looking for nominations, I suggest "lockout". We've had two in
>> pro sports this year and the talk about NBA lockout intensified because
>> of the partially cancelled season. There was also the Verizon lockout.
>> There have been several publicly discussed lockouts in recent memory,
>> but nothing like the NFL, NBA and Verizon ones this summer.
>> 
>> VS-)
>> 
>> On 11/23/2011 1:56 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>> "pinkwashing" and "homonationalism"
>>> 
>>> --both defined in today's Op-Ed by Sarah Schulman:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/opinion/pinkwashing-and-israels-use-of-g=
>>> 
>>> ays-as-a-messaging-tool.html
>>> 
>>> LH
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