[Ads-l] "fake news" is the 2017 American Dialect Society word of the year.

Sat Jan 6 03:43:37 UTC 2018

Thanks for this.  By the way, what's "WTF" stand for.

Regards,
David

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In its 28th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society
voted for "fake news" as the Word of the Year for 2017. Defined in two ways,
=E2=80=9Cdisinformation or falsehoods presented as real news=E2=80=9D=  and
=E2=80=9Cactual news that is claimed to be untrue,=E2=80=9D "fake news" was
selected as bes= t representing the public discourse and preoccupations of
the past year.

Read the full press release, including all winners, candidates, and vote
tallies for all candidates:

https://www.americandialect.org/fake-news-is-2017-american-dialect-society-=
word-of-the-year

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