[Ads-l] WOTY 2018 nominations

[Mark Mandel]

"stan"?

Mark Mandel

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019, 8:57 AM Mark Peters <markpeterswriter at gmail.com wrote:

> Wow. What a terrible year, but what tremendous words.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 2, 2019, at 6:24 AM, Hugo <hugovk at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > These are all based on words people have been talking about on Twitter
> the
> > past year, from 81,695 tweets.
> >
> > Most of 2016's were related to the US presidential election (bigly,
> > braggadocious, headass), and many of 2017's also relate to the president
> > (covfefe, dotard, shitgibbon). Likewise in 2018.
> >
> > * beclowned
> > * bombogenesis
> > * catastrofuck
> > * chucklefuck
> > * clackwanker
> > * councel
> > * dipshittery
> > * fucksicle
> > * fuckwangled
> > * kakistocracy
> > * peoplekind
> > * shithole
> > * stan
> > * toxic
> > * trumpfuckery
> > * wankpuffin
> >
> > These are all sourced from analysis of three Twitter bots which have been
> > collecting words from Twitter since 2013. They've looked for certain
> > sentences and extracted the X.
> >
> > * @lovihatibot -- "I love/hate the word X"
> > * @nixibot -- "X is not/isn't/ain't a word"
> > * @favibot -- "X is my new favorite/favourite/fave word"
> >
> > More info:
> > https://laivakoira.typepad.com/blog/2018/12/twitter-woty-2018.html
> >
> > Hugo
> > http://laivakoira.typepad.com/blog/words/
>
>

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