Selten has summarized a word, the political debates of the year, as well as the word post, in fact. Now, the society for German language (GfdS) has named it the “word of the year”. Three weeks previously with its English counterpart and the model post-truth from the “Oxford English Dictionary” (OED) “Word of the Year”. You can be sure that more countries will raise their national linguistic variants of the term to the podium.
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the decision of the Jury, explained to the German language society, directing the attention to a profound political change. The word post, in fact, references to the fact that in political and social discussions today, increasingly also on emotions instead of facts. Larger and larger sections of the population in their reluctance against “those up there” ready to facts to ignore, and even obvious lies willing to accept. Not the claim to truth, but to Express the “perceived truth” may lead, in the “post-factual age” to success.
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The election of Donald Trump to the US President was generally considered to be a Triumph of post-factual politics
source: AP
The Jury decisions in England and Germany seem to be a bitter commentary on the election of Donald Trump to the President of the United States. Because the career of the post-truth and its equivalent in German, post, in fact went hand in hand with the rise of that man, the facts never seem something like that could hurt.
The prefix post- has also brought this country a lot of word of neoplasms, since the American literary critic Irving Howe in 1959, for the first time used the word post-modern in the modern sense, and Susan Sontag, Leslie Fiedler and Jean-François Lyotard, then, in the seventies, popular worldwide.
Post- “after”
Post- expresses that we are now in the Phase “after” something. the post dramatic is called pieces by René Pollesch, or Elfriede Jelinek, in which there is no dramatic action in the strict sense of the word. the post-industrial a national economy is, in the services and Digital are more important than production. And as the post-colonial, the companies will be defined in Africa, which were after the Second world war, regardless. Also known is the word post-punk as a designation for the musical and aesthetic ramifications, especially of the British pop music after 1980.
The latest successful product of the adjective and noun factories, the prefix of the post- use for Forming new words, is post, in fact. Since the summer of this year, it has a career. It even makes the Narrative the rank of the most used editorial-Blähworts in dispute.
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Post, in fact is called a social state, in which the facts have no role to play in political disputes, because larger and larger groups of the population not insist on your perceived truth is agree with the facts and the facts are not facts, but the Machinations of the lying press. Donald Trump is an American President, though the media were able to demonstrate from the beginning that he has incredibly spread a lot of lies and half-truths.
Angela Merkel has the word post used in fact, in September, in a speech
source: AFP
the proponents of the Brexits have contributed to the rise of the concept of the post, in fact. According to the decision, to leave the EU, claimed the then Ukip leader Nigel Farage, this victory had been won without a single drop of bloodshed. He ignored completely the fact that a few weeks before the vote, the Pro-European Labour politician Jo Cox of a Nazi and radical Brexit supporters was stabbed to death. That Farage has not been stuffed his lie back in the neck, it is possible to explain only by the fact that we live in the post-factual age.
The adjective post, in fact in expressions like post facto is a last pinball machine produced by the English terms of the post-truth politics or post-factual politics. The Serbian-American playwright Steve Tesich has probably coined the term post-truth in 1992 for an Essay in The magazine “The Nation”. Both variants have been used in English-speaking media since 2016 frequently.
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Oxford Dictionaries, the publisher of the “OED”, defines the term as a description of the “circumstances in which objective facts have less influence on the formation of public opinion as references to feelings and personal Faith.”
Since August, 2016, the Translation of the post, in fact more and more often in German media showed up. Was knighted by Angela Merkel said in a speech in mid-September after poor election results in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: “It is, Yes, recently, we lived in a post-factual times.”
Meanwhile, arrived at the post, in fact is already in on the joke culture. The other day one of my Acquaintances, a friend said that this dress post, in fact – it is ignoring the truths of his body.
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Every year, the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache e. V. selects the “word of the year”. For the first time in 1971 and since 1977, she regularly chooses words and phrases that the political, economic…aftliche and social life of a year in a special way. Since 2005, the reasons for its decisions. source: gfds.de
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