{"id":7622,"date":"2020-01-11T09:39:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T09:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2020-01-11T09:39:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T09:39:52","slug":"words-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/01\/11\/words-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"New words of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist's Johnson column had a new year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/books-and-arts\/2020\/01\/02\/of-train-boasts-plane-shame-and-electric-automobiles\">article<\/a> on how\u00a0new words in 2019 reflect the rise of climate-change activism. \u00a0Here are a few of my favourites:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Germany \u2013 \u00a0<em>Heisszeit<\/em>, \u201cHeat Age\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The Netherlands \u2013 <em>laadpaalklever<\/em>, \u201ccharging-post sticker\u201d (someone who uses the electric-car charging space for too long)<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Sweden \u2013 <em>flygskam,\u00a0<\/em>\u201cflight-shame\u201d (those who fly thoughtlessly or needlessly)<\/p>\n<p>- Sweden \u2013\u00a0<em>tagskryt<\/em>, \u201ctrain-boasting\u201d \u00a0(those who smugly know that they can't be accused of flygskam)<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Italy \u2013 \u00a0<em>gretini,<\/em>\u00a0\"mindless followers of Ms Thunberg\"<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The UK \u2013 \"existential\" . \u00a0Enough said ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist's Johnson column had a new year article on how\u00a0new words in 2019 reflect the rise of climate-change activism. \u00a0Here are a few of my favourites: \u2013 Germany \u2013 \u00a0Heisszeit, \u201cHeat Age\u201d \u2013 The Netherlands \u2013 laadpaalklever, \u201ccharging-post sticker\u201d...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}