Truthiness is not a word. It may seem like a natural progression, but that
doesn't make it exist. I stand by my statement.

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Justin Scott <leviat...@darktech.org>wrote:

>
> > Steven Colbert has made it so far into pop culture that his
> > fake words are now used in programming discussion.
>
> "Truthy" and "Falsy" were used to describe dynamic boolean expressions
> long before Colbert coined his specific definition of "truthiness".
> Expanding a "truthy" and testing its "truthiness" is a natural
> progression of the concept even pre-Colbert.  So, I wouldn't take a
> use of that word in a programming sense as a political statement. :)
>
>
> -Justin
>
> 

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