Humorous new words…
August 29, 2006
As reported by Reuters: “Truthiness” and “Wikiality” — two of the words popularized by political satirist Stephen Colbert on his TV show “The Colbert Report”– were named on Sunday the top television buzzwords of the year…
…Global Language Monitor defined “truthiness” as used by Colbert as meaning “truth unencumbered by the facts.” “Wikiality,” derived from the user-compiled Wikipeida information Web site, was defined as “reality as determined by majority vote,” as when astronomers voted Pluto off their list of planets last week.
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Jonathan Ramsey | September 1, 2006 at 8:32 pm
It is truly our imperative, now, to promote truthiness and wikiality among the fake news channels across the web!
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