'Occupy': Geoff Nunberg's 2011 Word Of The Year

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Excerpts from NPR: 'Occupy': Geoff Nunberg's 2011 Word Of The Year

And talking about "the 1 percent" has its advantages. It seems to put things on an objective basis and strips away the vagueness and the emotional overtones that go with talking about "the rich." It has caught the public fancy, too. Even the Wall Street Journal has gotten into the game with a Web page that lets readers calculate their income percentile from 1 to 100. (What, only 98.7?)

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I was struck by a Thanksgiving op-ed in The Washington Times that said "The so-called '99 percent' have never had it so good." The phrase doesn't make a lot of literal sense — what else would you call them? But it suggests the right's frustration. "So-called" is what people say when they've lost control of the conversation and have to use the other's guy's language, like the liberals who talk about "so-called family values."

more here: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/07/143265669/occupy-geoff-nunbergs-2011-word-of-the-year