2009-12-08 00:48:21frank

尋找一個足以代表這十年(2000~2009)的字

有甚麼字可或詞以用來統括這十年嗎?先來回顧一下這十年有甚麼令我印象深刻的大事與人物吧!

發生在台灣的事件:
兩次的政黨輪替、阿扁從總統變成階下囚、藍綠惡鬥、蘋果日報、壹週刊、SARS、莫拉克颱風的風災(88水災)、納莉颱風水淹台北捷運、銀行的合併與更名、電腦與其周邊製造產業的西進、豪宅、無名小站、放棄中程巡弋飛彈的研發、逐漸縮短兵役、2100全民亂講及後續系列節目、過境美國成了重大外交成就、象神颱風造成巨大損害與傷亡包括新航班機的失事、八掌溪事件、兩次總統大選國民黨輸不起的種種街頭抗爭、施明德號召的紅杉軍、政客的雙重國籍、(Acer, Asus, D-Link)品牌與代工分家、明基併購Siemens Mobile並經營失敗、Gianfranco Lanci成為宏碁的總經理、親民黨的泡沫化、六輕開始營運、世運會、聽障奧運、自行車運動的風行、貓空纜車的行駛旋停駛、台北街頭上演戒嚴、佳暮村的勇士自己的鄉親自己救、國民黨對綠營的政治人物的秋後算帳、319槍擊案.....

令人印象深刻的台灣人、團體或組織:
林義傑、蔡英文、釋聖嚴、周杰倫、劉奇偉、王永慶、辜振甫、詹詠然、盧彥勳、王建民、郭台銘、王雪紅、嘉邑行善團、慈濟功德會、HTC、公共電視、李安、王貞治、鄭弘儀、舒淇、張惠妹、魏德聖、王力宏、五月天、朱木炎、王偉忠、張明正、曾雅妮...葉素菲、劉偉杰、王又曾、柯賜海、孫道存、詐騙集團、社交名媛.....。

如果只用一個字來總括這十年來的台灣,我想是:躁。

國際大事:
美國的布希所發動的幾場侵略戰爭、歐盟的擴張與統合、南亞海嘯、四川大地震、以色列在加薩走廊發動的戰爭暴行、金融風暴、SARS、H1N1、冰島與杜拜神話的破滅、全球暖化、各種原物料價格上漲、北京民眾包圍嬴了中國國家足球隊的日本隊、IBM出售電腦部門給聯想、中國崛起、大企業任用外籍CEO、Apple引領電子產品的流行、Google創造的幸福經濟、俄羅斯的衰微又興起、911事件、GPS的普及、Enron企業詐欺、Arthur Andersen協助作假帳、汽車業的整併與收購.......

People:
Roger Federer, Tiger Woods, Michael Schumacher, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, Al Gore, Steve Job, Justin Henin, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Kofi Annan, Michael Phelps, Hugo Chaves, Jack Welsh, ....etc.

用一個字來形容,這真是太難了。我腦袋裡的是:war 或 greed




Can one word sum up this decade?

As we enter the last few weeks of the 2000s, the Magazine is enlisting readers to tell the story of the last 10 years, based on five themes. British wordsmith Susie Dent begins the series with some suggestions for "words of the decade".

Language, as an American lexicographer once neatly put it, "is an uncompromising mirror... an untouched record of the thoughts, feelings, successes, failures, and intent of the people".

We are what we say, and as a shorthand summary of a single event or period in time, a word or phrase that came into prominence is hard to beat.

This opening decade of the 2000s - for which the nickname Noughties ultimately pipped all others - has generated a wealth of new words, and their resonance is likely to provoke strong memories.

Some of them are inextricably tied up with single events: 9/11 has become the only reference necessary to describe the terrorist attacks against America in 2001, events which spawned many further expressions, including axis of evil and moral crusade as well as allegations of sexing up and dodgy dossiers . More recently the current Great Recession has spawned a bemusing lexicon full of toxic debt and quantitative easing .

Neologisms - brand new words - speak strongly for the times they were coined for, even the fun ones. Bling characterised for many the opening years of the century, the perfect description of a celebrity- (or nonebrity -) obsessed culture intent on being as flashy as the people it idolized. Social networking has added a new flavour to our language: Twitter alone has given us tweets , twitts - even tweet-ups among the Twitterati .

Poking , to take just one word from the Facebook lexicon, is not a new word - it has simply taken on a new sense.

In fact many, if not most, of our "new" words are born of the same process of reinvention, including what is undoubtedly one of the most prominent words of the century thus far: chav . Once a Romany word meaning "child" ( chavi ) more than 150 years ago, it was relaunched quite spectacularly in 2005 when, in the UK, it became one of the most powerful (and derogatory) social labels in recent memory.

Some little-known terms also gained higher profile: as 2004 ended, the Asian tsunami forced a word unknown to many into the everyday vocabulary of millions.

Green has been indisputably the colour of the decade, leaving its carbon footprint across its years and prompting, among so much else, the arrival of Britain's first eco-towns . The threat of ecological disaster has been joined this year by fears of swine flu - itself overtaking the nightmare possibilities of H5N1 - and of an epidemic of globesity .

These are just some of the words characterising the last 10 years - there are many more to choose from and this is where you come in.

We want you to choose your word or words of the decade.

There is some flexibility about what kind of words and phrases are allowed, as long as they are actually used. Proprietary names are also fine - we are, after all, the iPod generation .

Initialisms like WMD are acceptable, but people's names are not admissible (you can have your say about people of the decade on Tuesday), unless they transcend their names, as in Bushism .

Otherwise, the choice is all yours.

Tell us your word or words of the decade using the form

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8396281.stm

Published: 2009/12/07 10:34:37 GMT

© BBC MMIX



Portrait of the decade - terms and conditions

TheMagazine is asking readers to tell the story of the last 10 years,based on five themes - words, people, news stories, objects andculture. Here are the terms and conditions for those taking part.

1. The aim of the series is to build up a picture of the past 10 years based on reader suggestions across five categories

2. Suggestions can only be made using the correspondence box in a story about each category

3. There is no limit on the number of suggestions a reader can make in each category

4. All suggestions will be screened by the BBC for topic relevance, and taste and decency

5. No additional weight will be attached to multiple suggestions

6. A list of all suggestions will be compiled at the close of each day and forwarded to the relevant category expert

7. The expert will pick 20 suggestions from the list, based on their opinion of which are most significant

8. A list of the final suggestions will be published on Monday, 14 December

9.We will also run a parallel project for our UK audience, which will befeatured on the UK front page and Magazine page. This will employ a different range of experts to assess suggestions from readers


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