Ξεκίνησε σαν όρος για όσους αναζητούσαν την αλήθεια για την επίθεση της 11/9/2001 στους Δίδυμους Πύργους της Νέας Υόρκης (που ανεπίσημα σχημάτισαν το επονομαζόμενο 9/11 Truth movement), αλλά η σημασία του truther έχει επεκταθεί σε λογής-λογής συνωμοσιολόγους που επινοούν τις πιο απίθανες εξηγήσεις για τα δύσκολα φαινόμενα της εποχής μας. Ο επίσημος όρος για τους συνωμοσιολόγους είναι conspiracy theorists.
"9/11 Truth movement" is the collective name of loosely affiliated organizations and individuals that question whether the United States government, agencies of the United States or individuals within such agencies were either responsible for or purposefully complicit in the September 11 attacks. The term is also being used by the adherents of the movement. Adherents also call themselves "9/11 Truthers", "9/11 skeptics" or "truth activists", while generally rejecting the term "conspiracy theorists".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Truth_movement
truther
US • informal
A person who doubts the generally accepted account of an event, believing that an official conspiracy exists to conceal the true explanation; a conspiracy theorist:
she denied evolution, AIDS/HIV, and was a 9/11 truther
Right-wing poll truthers do not understand party ID in polls.
The reason truthers exist is that some people find it impossible to change their mind regardless of the facts.
Like all 'truthers', he doesn't allow mere facts to get in the way of a conspiracy theory.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/truther?q=truther
It looks like the word truther (or 9/11 truther) was first coined in 2004, accordingly to a recent column by the journalist and critic Leslie Savan:
The term truther appears to be self-chosen. Jon Gold, an activist in the 9/11 Truth movement, wrote on his blog recently that the term originated in late 2004 when he was bucking up a fellow activist who "was tired of being ridiculed," telling him, "You're a 9/11 truther, don't let them get to you." Gold added, "In the back of my mind, I thought of the term 'Quaker.'"
—Leslie Savan, "On Language: From Simple Noun to Handy Partisan Put-Down," The New York Times, November 18, 2009
http://www.wordspy.com/words/truther.asp
http://www.slang.gr/lemma/show/psekasmenos_21267
Προσοχή: Αν ο ίδιος ο «ψεκασμένος» χρησιμοποιεί τον όρο truther, δεν είναι σωστό να μεταφραστεί με απαξιωτική απόδοση. Θα πρέπει να πούμε κάτι σαν «αναζητητής της αλήθειας».
"9/11 Truth movement" is the collective name of loosely affiliated organizations and individuals that question whether the United States government, agencies of the United States or individuals within such agencies were either responsible for or purposefully complicit in the September 11 attacks. The term is also being used by the adherents of the movement. Adherents also call themselves "9/11 Truthers", "9/11 skeptics" or "truth activists", while generally rejecting the term "conspiracy theorists".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Truth_movement
truther
US • informal
A person who doubts the generally accepted account of an event, believing that an official conspiracy exists to conceal the true explanation; a conspiracy theorist:
she denied evolution, AIDS/HIV, and was a 9/11 truther
Right-wing poll truthers do not understand party ID in polls.
The reason truthers exist is that some people find it impossible to change their mind regardless of the facts.
Like all 'truthers', he doesn't allow mere facts to get in the way of a conspiracy theory.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/truther?q=truther
It looks like the word truther (or 9/11 truther) was first coined in 2004, accordingly to a recent column by the journalist and critic Leslie Savan:
The term truther appears to be self-chosen. Jon Gold, an activist in the 9/11 Truth movement, wrote on his blog recently that the term originated in late 2004 when he was bucking up a fellow activist who "was tired of being ridiculed," telling him, "You're a 9/11 truther, don't let them get to you." Gold added, "In the back of my mind, I thought of the term 'Quaker.'"
—Leslie Savan, "On Language: From Simple Noun to Handy Partisan Put-Down," The New York Times, November 18, 2009
http://www.wordspy.com/words/truther.asp
http://www.slang.gr/lemma/show/psekasmenos_21267
Προσοχή: Αν ο ίδιος ο «ψεκασμένος» χρησιμοποιεί τον όρο truther, δεν είναι σωστό να μεταφραστεί με απαξιωτική απόδοση. Θα πρέπει να πούμε κάτι σαν «αναζητητής της αλήθειας».
