Posted on 11/28/2016 1:01:27 PM PST by PROCON
NEW YORK (AP) — You might have thought about it, heard it. A lot. You might have even felt it: Dictionary.com's word of the year is "xenophobia."
While it's difficult to get at exactly why people look up words in dictionaries, online or on paper, it's clear that in contentious 2016, fear of "otherness" bruised the collective consciousness around the globe.
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“snowflake”
I thought it was “deplorable”?
Never knew what that word was until this year. Yes dictionary.com is not a good site to go to.
Best Quote: “The word impossible is found only in the dictionaries of Fools.” Napoleon
I am definitely Xenaphobic. That warrior princess could easily kick my butt.
Don’t get me started, Wonder woman could kick Xena’s butt back into last week :-)
But they suffer from the fear of real men.
I’m afraid of xenophobes.................
I’m willing to cut dictionary.com some slack.
They are a needed resource for the idiots on the left who are name-calling without even knowing what the name they are calling means.
The liberals have been dutifully throwing this word around and parroting the party line like the compliant idiots they are. All most of them know is that it’s a “bad word” that they can call conservatives, and that we are supposed to shrink back in horror.
For some reason, that didn’t work out quite as planned during this election season.
In other news, Still Thinking’s phrase of the year is “Hyperventilating Liberal Pantywaists, too ignorant to realize results they don’t like are actually better for them too”
So does that make you a xeno or a xenophobephobe?
Good ones! I like both “snowflake” and “deplorable” as candidates.
How about “bigly” or “YUGE”?
I used to use that site regularly, but found that they are undercover propagandists.
Okay, so here's how it went down: Hillary Clinton looked up "xenophobe" on June 22nd, and used it later that evening in a speech.
The next day, 130 Hillary supporters had to look it up in order to know what she was talking about.
An additional 808 Hillary supporters took a day to learn how to spell the word, so they did not look up the word until the 24th.
The rest of her supporters still haven't figured out how to spell it.
(130+808)/1 = 938.
Anyone who had to look up that word is an uneducated moron who shouldn’t be allowed to vote; ditto for those who pulled that word out of their old study guides for the SAT and misused and abused the word.
Why not?
Well then you are suffering from xenophobophobia.
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