2017's Word of the Year Perfectly Captures the Past 12 Months in Trump's America @alternet

2017's Word of the Year Perfectly Captures the Past 12 Months in Trump's America @alternet: It can surely only be a matter of time before the Word of the Year is just an emoji. 'Fake news!” He shouts it so often that it’s become meaningless. We’ve learned to tune it out now, the way you do when your toddler bangs their fists on their high chair and yells “toast!” for so long the word has become divorced from the thing they thought they wanted, it’s just turned into a noise that means “give me attention!”