LSSU's List of Words banned for 2008

[MelissaG915]

Perfect storm

Webinar - annoyed me the first time I heard it

waterboarding

organic - seems pretty generic a word to ban

wordsmith/wordsmithing

author/authored

post 9/11 - agreed

surge

give back

"blank" is the new "blank" - aw, I took great joy in mocking Vogue with this one

Black Friday - I think Oblong's been waiting for this

back in the day

random

sweet

decimate

emotional

pop - in what context?

it is what it is - seems to be an old-fashioned term I didn't know was getting its share of wear and tear

under the bus - I've used it on occasion, but didn't know it was overused

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I'd add "going green" and (please forgive me) "for the cure". These are being used so often by so many companies that are grasping desperately to appear socially conscious, that the phrases are losing their significance, and, as a whole, cheapening the sentiment as a whole.

[chuckles396]

surge


Crap. :disappnt:

[monkeytargets37]

this is what people in college are doing now?

[MelissaG915]

it's the 33rd annual list, the English department at Lake Superior State has released their list of banned words on New Years Day since 1976. It's all in good fun, and if you look back at the list to see what slang and catch phrases they have wished to take out of circulation, it's a pretty interesting snapshot of the times we lived in.

[djhutch]

Webinar - does anybody really use this?

Black Friday - agree completely

pop - if they mean we should say "soda", they need to shutup.

it is what it is - again, agree completely

[CMRivdog]

This looks like the explanation for pop

POP – "On every single one of the 45,000 decorating shows on cable TV (of which I watch many) there is at LEAST one obligatory use of a phrase such as ... 'the addition of the red really makes it POP.' You know when it's coming ... you mouth it along with the decorator. There must be some other way of describing the addition of an interesting detail." – Barbara, Arlington, Texas.



http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

[Oblong]

I was thinking about this list the other day. I love it.

"Under the bus" is long overdue. "Give back" is a great one. Another one, which may have been a previous entry is "backfill". No idiot, it's your replacement because we don't know what to do with you guys and we can't fire you so we're swapping"

[smr-nj]

Here's one that needs to be deleted from popular use:

"Word" .......... as an answer when you agree with someone's statement.

"We need to change things around here"
"WORD".

UGH.
It's bad enough when my students say it, but it's worse when it's another supposed adult throwing that crap out there.

[shabba4detroit]

My son says "Back in the day" and when they are trying to illustrate that the timespan is very long, he says "Back in the year." It's annoying but cute at the same time.

[sagnam]

Here's one that needs to be deleted from popular use:

"Word" .......... as an answer when you agree with someone's statement.

"We need to change things around here"
"WORD".

UGH.
It's bad enough when my students say it, but it's worse when it's another supposed adult throwing that crap out there.

Word!

[holygoat]

it is what it is - seems to be an old-fashioned term I didn't know was getting its share of wear and tear


Hurray!

[Biff Mayhem]

"My bad" has got to go.

[ToledoTigerFan]

Here's a term from baseball that has outlived its usefulness. Innings eater. Trite. And the expression "outlived its usefulness" has outlived its usefulness.

[ToledoTigerFan]

While I'm on overused baseball expressions, let me add "shut him down". As in Bonderman has a sore elbow; they should shut him down for a few weeks. What the hell does that mean? When he's OK do they shut him up?

[baseballbruce30]

"My bad" has got to go.

absolutely, good call - I am tired of hearing this from our 18 year-old budding rock-star .... uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[hueytaxi]

Lot of good ones so far.....my bad and word I hate. Axe instead of ask is still in vogue and is ridiculous. Any text speak in normal conversation is assinine and assumes we all text. Not me, don't try, I "Delete All". And Nextel phones on speaker.....gotta go. "I seen them together"..lack of education properly applied. The breakdown of Grammer. "Hello. Please hold for an important message. One of our representatives will be with you shortly" (kill that SOB!. "Press 1 for English", anythng after that is usually downhill until the op for a "live person" pops up (Oh, I said pop).

[treyKemper]

Please take out "No Worries". When I hear this outside of Jamaica my facial tick starts acting up.

[djhutch]

I don't know if anybody says this anymore, but "Let's run it up the flagpole to see if it flies" is annoying.

Another one is "You Go Girl".

[LJK004]

I missed this list last year. I used to work with a girl who was a Laker, so every year this list was posted in the lunch room, I always thought it was pretty good.

I do wonder why she kept putting it up, becuase everyone would make a game out of how many times we could use the banned words in conversation with her...

[Lbh24]

Physicality.