Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Stephen Colbert's coined 'truthiness'

And here is Stephen Colbert's coined 'truthiness' as per English Wikipedia's entry:

Truthiness is a satirical term created by television comedian Stephen Colbert to describe things that a person claims to know intuitively or "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or actual facts. Colbert created this definition of the word during the inaugural episode of his satirical television program The Colbert Report, as the subject of a segment called "The Wørd". It was named Word of the Year for 2005 by the American Dialect Society and for 2006 by Merriam-Webster. By using the term as part of his satirical routine, Colbert sought to criticize the use of "truthiness" as an appeal to emotion and tool of rhetoric in contemporary socio-political discourse.

Courtesy of Wikipedia

2 comments:

Unknown said...

in all truthiness,.... i guess i could start using this.

B.R. said...

I really like his spelling of 'word' with the line across the 'o.'