Why gaslighting is the word of the year
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🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Marium Webster's Word of the Year is Gaslighting. |
| 0:04.0 | Psychological manipulation of a person usually |
| 0:09.0 | over an extended period of time, it causes the victim |
| 0:12.0 | to question the validity of their own thoughts. |
| 0:15.0 | It's a bit of an odd choice because it feels like |
| 0:17.0 | gaslight might have been a better word of the year like |
| 0:20.0 | 2016, 2017. |
| 0:23.0 | One thing I can promise you this, |
| 0:26.0 | I will always tell you the truth. |
| 0:31.0 | We called up Marium Webster to ask if they're gaslighting us. |
| 0:36.0 | I used to write a monthly report back around 2002-2003 |
| 0:40.0 | about which words were looked up the most every month |
| 0:43.0 | in our online dictionary. |
| 0:45.0 | So I've been aware of our data, if you will, |
| 0:48.0 | kind of in working closely with it for more than 20 years. |
| 0:51.0 | A conversation with the dictionary ahead on today's explained. |
| 0:58.0 | This episode is supported by NetApp. |
| 1:02.0 | NetApp wants listeners to know that they are in love with the cloud. |
| 1:05.0 | So in love that they climb a mountain or cross an ocean just to prove it. |
| 1:08.0 | But that's not actually necessary. |
| 1:10.0 | So instead, they just made this podcast ad. |
| 1:12.0 | NetApp makes the cloud work smarter and harder |
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