[Ads-l] "Alternative facts" for EOTY

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jan 24, 2017, at 8:14 PM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> A la "alt right"?
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> Joel

Seems so.  OED, s.v. “alt”:
Alternative; spec. denoting a version of some cultural phenomenon (orig. and esp. music) that is regarded as outside the mainstream of its genre. 
[citing “alt.rock” and “alt country”]

So alt facts would be a cultural phenomenon regarded as outside the mainstream of the fact genre (in being, well, not true).

LH
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>      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "Alternative facts" for EOTY
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> MSNBC is now using the short form "alt facts."
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> JL
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> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Wrong! Wrong!
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>> Not a falsehood! It's an important alternate fact.
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>> Also note my signature line of many years standing.
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>> JL
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>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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