A rizzy word-of-the-year chat (with Jess Zafarris)

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Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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BONUS. Prompting, hallucinating, and more! Jess Zafarris, author of "Words from Hell," joins me for a word-of-the-year chat. Hang out with us as we look at how dictionaries are handling new words and meanings that have cropped up around emerging technologies in 2023.

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0:00.0	Grabber Girler Girl here.
0:06.5	I'm Nion Fog Fog Fog and welcome to this bonus episode.
0:10.0	There are words of the year to talk about and I just could not let 2023 go by without talking
0:14.7	about them.
0:15.7	And I'm here today with Jess Zefaris who joined us recently to talk about her new book,
0:20.4	Words From Hell, and she is so kind to come back and talk about Words of the Year with us.
0:25.3	Welcome Jess.
0:27.3	Thank you so much you know I love the show and I'm excited to be back.
0:31.3	Yeah and see we are recording this December 16th but it won't come out
0:36.2	until I believe the 28th so there could be more words of the year that we
0:41.6	don't get to that come out after the show but at least you'll get the big picture some of them.
0:47.0	So, you know, I had been thinking about doing this and then when Jess, when you came out with the Reagan words of the year, I thought,
0:55.8	I just can't let the year go by without doing this.
0:58.0	And you're the perfect person to do it.
0:59.9	So do you want to start talking about Reagan's word of the,
1:04.2	Reagan Communications World of the Year?
1:06.0	Yeah, absolutely.
1:07.0	So in addition to writing about etymology
1:09.0	for our listeners, I'm also the director of content
1:11.4	at Reagan Communications.
1:13.4	So I made a list of 10 words of the year for Reagan, or sorry, Reagan's audiences.
1:20.6	So these words were for communications professionals and PR professionals as well.
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