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

[Laurence Horn]

Nobody bothered to answer this question? What the fuck?

LH
> On Jan 5, 2018, at 10:43 PM, David K. Barnhart <dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for this.  By the way, what's "WTF" stand for.
> 
> Regards,
> David
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> Ben Zimmer
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> Subject:      "fake news" is the 2017 American Dialect Society word of the
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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:
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> https://www.americandialect.org/fake-news-is-2017-american-dialect-society-=
> word-of-the-year
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