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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Laurence Horn wrote:
> Nobody bothered to answer this question? What the fuck?
> LH

I've been reading a book from HarperCollins with "WTF" in the title.
The author Tim O'Reilly who is a prognosticator and publisher of
computer books employs a dual meaning for WTF. The second meaning is
"What's the future". The first meaning is referenced in the message
from LH.

Title: WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
Author: Tim O'Reilly
Publisher: HarperBusiness Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

[Begin blurb excerpt]
WTF? can be an expression of amazement or an expression of dismay. In
today’s economy, we have far too much dismay along with our amazement,
and technology bears some of the blame. In this combination of memoir,
business strategy guide, and call to action, Tim O'Reilly, Silicon
Valley’s leading intellectual and the founder of O’Reilly Media,
explores the upside and the potential downsides of today's WTF?
technologies.
[End blurb excerpt]

Garson



>> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
>> Ben Zimmer
>> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2018 10:01 PM
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: "fake news" is the 2017 American Dialect Society word of the year.
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>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> Poster:       Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM>
>> Subject:      "fake news" is the 2017 American Dialect Society word of the
>>              year.
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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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