The word of the year,’Post-Truth’ declared by Oxford Dictionaries, is indicative of the current mood in the country. It is so fitting, in the year of Brexit, Trump and Demonetisation that saw politics move from any farce of truth to emotionally charged irrationality.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines ‘post-truth’ as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” An analysis by the Oxford English Corpus charted the usage of ‘post-truth’, showing that it increased by 2,000 percent in the last year.
Oxford Dictionaries’ Casper Grathwohl told BBC News: “Fuelled by the rise of social media as a news source and a growing distrust of facts offered up by the establishment, post-truth as a concept has been finding its linguistic footing for some time. We first saw the frequency really spike this year in June with buzz over the Brexit vote and again in July when Donald Trump secured the Republican presidential nomination.” Grathwohl further added, “Given that usage of the term hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down, I wouldn’t be surprised if post-truth becomes one of the defining words of our time,”
Nothing is going to change anything. Come up with any word, explain with humbleness, be kind to the arrogance.. nothing changes the people who have been changed to live a d die for the egos.. not even worth two cents but can shake the lives and hard earned real culture and wipe humanity off planet earth someday. So our culture is being killed using the word culture. Looking at farmer stories today from across bothering the eff out of me.
Exactly couldn’t agree more
Hey Jack waiting for ur top ten lists of 2016 .. Yes wrt fashion , entertainment ,wannabes and affairs !!!
Jack, is fashion designer, Kunal Rawal, a gay ? And who is he dating ?
Krithika, he is not gay. Source- his former assistant.