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2007's word of the year?

post #1 of 14
1/3/08 at 12:47am
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Before 2007, I'd never heard the word "hubris". I now rarely go a day on the internet without reading it in an article. Anyone know why the word suddenly got so popular?
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post #2 of 14
1/3/08 at 12:50am
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Originally Posted by The Alexor
Anyone know why the word suddenly got so popular?
I blame chipotle.
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post #3 of 14
1/3/08 at 1:16am
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Originally Posted by The Alexor
Before 2007, I'd never heard the word "hubris". I now rarely go a day on the internet without reading it in an article. Anyone know why the word suddenly got so popular?
Newspapermen finally took a greek lit class?

Also, how does one get out of high school without hearing the word hubris used liberally? I mean, not having heard of sophosyne, I understand. But hubris?

p.s. Merriam-Webster's word of the year is: w00t
Much more humorous than Oxford's: locavore
American Dialect Society hasn't voted yet.
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post #4 of 14
1/3/08 at 1:19am
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Originally Posted by Belethedheliel
Also, how does one get out of high school without hearing the word hubris used liberally? I mean, not having heard of sophosyne, I understand. But hubris?
I am a francophone.
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post #5 of 14
1/3/08 at 1:26am
Mmmm. Hubris and toast...
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post #6 of 14
1/3/08 at 1:36am
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Anyone know why the word suddenly got so popular?
You'll see it more and more in the future as people start realizing that it's the perfect word to describe America's opinion of itself and it's value to the rest of the world.
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post #7 of 14
1/3/08 at 1:59am
i must've heard "hubris brings nemesis" like a billion times out of my 9th grade English teacher.
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post #8 of 14
1/3/08 at 2:18am
I blame 300.

Xerxes should not have forgotten it...srsly.
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post #9 of 14
1/3/08 at 7:49am
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Originally Posted by Cow Puncher
I remember during the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinksy circus that the word of choice was "salacious". You hardly heard it used in mainstream media before that (or since, as these things have short shelfives), but every time you turned around it was "accused of salacious conduct" or "these salacious claims".

I'm sure lots of very confused people were wondering what a Star Wars character had to do with an intern blowing the POTUS. And it most likely resulted in pages upon pages of awful fanfiction.
That reminds me, I have to get to work on my new fanfic story: "The Fall of Darth Hubris"
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post #10 of 14
1/3/08 at 10:28am
There's been no shortage of "hubris" in my life. My personal choice for word of the year, 2007: "Friend-o."
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post #11 of 14
1/3/08 at 2:01pm
I guess it just makes the newspapers feel like they're laying down an intellectual bomb by accusing good ol US of A of 'hubris', which is better sounding than all of that 'pride' shit, which is both in vogue and out of vogue every other freakin' day.
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post #12 of 14
1/3/08 at 3:19pm
I've seen the word hubris frequently in print. I think when your mind takes notice of a word for the first time either by definition or context, then you start to notice it afterwards, where previously you might have filtered it out.

Personally, the phrase of 2007 would be 'Organic feel/process'. I've only recently taken notice of how often this is used, especially by people in the film industry, and how pretentious it sounds.
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post #13 of 14
1/3/08 at 3:28pm
Prediction for 2008. "Green"
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post #14 of 14
1/3/08 at 8:24pm
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Originally Posted by HunterRose
Personally, the phrase of 2007 would be 'Organic feel/process'. I've only recently taken notice of how often this is used, especially by people in the film industry, and how pretentious it sounds.
Especially since they are often misusing it. They don't mean "organized," "a fundamental part of the whole" or "relating to living beings." They usually mean that it feels natural or realistic or not-forced, which is not really the same thing as organic. Apparently using the standard art term of "realism" just doesn't sound cool enough, even though that's usually what they mean.

For example, Once is a good portrayal of realism in the art of film (it is also organic in the sense that it is about living beings and that the parts work together well). By contrast, X-Men is a good organic film to start an X-Men series, but is not an example of realism.
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