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‘Post-truth’ named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries, in the era of Trump and Brexit
In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year. Defined by the dictionary as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, editors said that use of the term “post-truth” had increased by around 2,000 per cent in 2016 compared to last year. The spike in usage, it said, is “in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States”.
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Well, that makes sense. ‘Deplorables’ is already in the OED. Still, it’s not a word, it’s a term. It’s a loaded term at that, with a meaning more or less equivalent to ‘deplorables.’It’s a put down used by people upset they’ll have to find their au pairs from their local economy, said of the unwashed masses that failed to show sufficient enthusiasm for the neoliberal project. What’ll the word for next year be? ‘FBI interference?’