Friday, May 26, 2006

pseudo-facty

adj. Truthy?

Real citation: "Secret societies that revere Mary Magdalene, Renaissance artists who doodle blasphemous in-jokes in the corners of their paintings, tubby cardinals desperate to make sure the general public doesn't find out that women really are the center of the universe: "The Da Vinci Code," a blend of pseudo-facty information and mischievous, provocative invention, is a flying meringue pie headed straight for the church's kisser."
(Stephanie Zacharek, "The Da Vinci Code," May 18, 2006, http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2006/05/18/da_vinci/)

Made-up citation: "My knowledge of history is pseudo-facty at best. Hamlet was a Moop, right?"

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