![]() But since the AP somehow neglected to mention "The Colbert Report" in its coverage of the vote, that gave the eternally put-upon Mr. In an AP report, Adams summed up Colbert's buzzword as "truthy, not facty" (in true Buffy style). ![]() Beyond linguisticky circles, Adams is perhaps best known for his pseudo-feud with Stephen Colbert a few years ago, after truthiness was selected as ADS WOTY for 2005. We've discussed the gregarious -y suffix here a number of times, for instance in my posts " Feeling all Olympic-y" and " Slang affixation: it's all mystery-y-ish-y." Both posts cite the signal work of Michael Adams on the -y suffix in his books Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (2004) and Slang: The People's Poetry (2009). In the '08 WOTY voting, hopey changey (hyphenated as hopey-changey) ended up in a special category of election-related terms, finishing a distant third behind maverick and lipstick on a pig (but ahead of hockey mom). Hopey changey: Derisive epithet incorporating Obama’s two main buzzwords (also dopey hopey changey). For 2008, I included hopey changey in my list of nominations, defining it as follows: Times editors could have spared themselves some confusion by paying more attention to the American Dialect Society voting for Word of the Year. Sarah Palin: In some editions of Sunday's Section A, an article about Sarah Palin's speech to the National Tea Party Convention quoted her as saying, "How's that hopey, changing stuff working out for you?" She said, "How's that hopey, changey stuff working out for you?" ![]() Via Talking Points Memo comes this correction from the Los Angeles Times: ![]()
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