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11/25/2009 - Word of the year

It's a bit of an anticlimax this year. The Genootschap Onze Taal ('Society Our Language') has chosen a word of the year again, and the best they could come up with was twitteren ('to twitter'/'to tweet' as in posting tweets on Twitter). In a way it's better than last year's totally ridiculous winner, in a way it's worse. Last year's winner, if you'll remember from this same blog, was swaffelen ('to slap objects and/or people with the penis'). The main difference being, that last year anybody with access to a computer could vote, while this year voting was limited to members of the society only. Last year's vote of course having been stolen by online groups intent on messing up online votes. At least last year something more creative won.

The main rivals this year were kopvoddentaks ('headrag tax'), vuvuzela (a South African musical instrument that produces a monotonous sound) and vaccinatieangst ('fear of vaccinations'). Kopvoddentaks was coined by politician Geert Wilders who suggested that Muslim women who persist in wearing headscarves should be taxed 1000 euros a year for it. The vuvuzela was seen a lot in an international soccer tournament held in South Africa this past summer, and is bound to be seen again at next year's World Cup.

The most relevant word in this shortlist however would have been vaccinatieangst. Earlier this year a massive campaign was launched to vaccinate young girls (12-13) against cervical cancer. Immediately rumors were spread online about the dangers of the vaccine. According to the rumors the vaccine does more damage than good. Most of the rumors were spread by an organization called Kritisch prikken ('to jab with criticism'). It was soon revealed that this is an organization based in the heartland of Christian extremists who would rather have nobody be inocculated at all. They subsequently won the annual Meester Kackadoris quackery award, but the damage was done, and thousand of girls stayed away.

The Oxford Dictionary (hey, it's on my Amazon wishlist, people!), also chose an internet related word as its word of the year: to unfriend. Luckily it's something I don't have to incorporate into my day to day routine. If I even expect I might have to unfriend you at some stage in the future, I'm not going to add you to my social network in the first place.

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