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‘Catch a dub’: Fatima Payman tries to make ‘skibidi’ happen in the Senate

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55% Informative

Independent senator Fatima Payman made the most new words ever added to Hansard in a two-minute speech.

The 29-year-old made an appeal to generations Z and Alpha .

Payman 's language came from the internet, which yielded about a dozen new words and phrases for Hansard but posed some of its own problems.

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56

Informative language

56

Neutral language

10

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

43

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

possibly hateful

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not detected

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not detected

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short-lived

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