Posted on 01/01/2008 5:53:01 AM PST by PreciousLiberty
Lake Superior State University's 2008 list of banished words or phrases:
• perfect storm
• Webinar
• waterboarding
• organic
• wordsmith/wordsmithing
• author/authored
• post 9/11
• surge
• give back
• `blank' is the new `blank'
• Black Friday
• back in the day
• random
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Nothing helps intellectual growth like censorship!
What got a laugh out of me, though, was banning the word "surge". I wonder why they don't like that one? heh
So, what’s the punishment if one ues a “banned” word?
Waterboarding.
I recall this one really random incident from back in the day. I was working as a wordsmith when my friend Jim took my organic soda, Surge. I yelled, “Give that back, or so help my you’ll get the waterboarding of the century!”
It turns out that he had also purchased a delicious Surge, thus creating the prefect storm for a misunderstanding. We laughed and laughed, and agreed it was the best Black Friday ever.
You forgot that they use it when they want to "guilt" us or our children into working toward their utopian vision without pay.
I've always despised the term "give back." I never took anything from anyone, so I don't see any reason that I should be "giving back." I prefer to say I am "giving to" instead because it describes generosity more accurately.
I suppose you could always ask the liberals who use this term... who did you take from? :)
I like waterboarding. Waterboarding is our friend. I makes the muzzie scum tell us information and does no permanent harm.
(Good grief, do they learn anything at school anymore??)
We should do surge of waterboarding on random faculty members until a perfect storm is created and they give back a re-authored list of words.
“at the end of the day” belongs on that list. Most of the others don’t.
How random! Back in the day, I attended a webinar on organic farming. I wanted to do my part and I authored a paper called "Black Friday" about how people should give back more. With a fair amount of wordsmithing, I found that the post 9/11 surge of people interested in such activities made the timing of the project a perfect storm.
On a not related subject, I remember someone telling me that "Orange was the new Black" a number of years ago, but I never saw it that way.
(Yeah, I know it stunk but I had to try...)
Well have to workshop that and see how it impacts our statement of purpose.
They left out the most important word; the one that describes them, irrelevant!
specifically when black guys do well for themselves they are required to give back to every lowlife bum they ever knew. I think of Vick when I think of giving back.
I hear variations of “own” being used at work, and it’s driving me nuts:
“I’ll own this”
“Do you own that project?”
“I thought Mike was going to own that?”
No. None of us “owns” the project. It’s not a tangible thing. It’s work that I exchange with you for a paycheck. Believe me, I am not keeping it after it’s completed.
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — The wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University are giving back to English speakers everywhere with their 33rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness.
On Dec. 31, 1975, former LSSU Public Relations Director Bill Rabe and his colleagues cooked up an idea to banish overused words and phrases and issue a list on New Year’s Day. Much to the delight of language enthusiasts everywhere, the list has stayed the course into a fourth decade.
This year’s list derives from thousands of nominations received through the university’s website. Word-watchers target pet peeves from everyday speech, as well as from the news, education, technology, advertising, politics, sports and more. A committee makes a final cut in late December. The list is released on New Year’s Day.
In this spirit, LSSU presents its 2008 list, a perfect storm of overused and abused words and phrases that pops organic, to a post-9/11 world decimated by webinars.
It is what it is.
http://www.lssu.edu/whats_new/articles.php?articleid=1431
LSSU is a small college in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and they do this every year. They do it mostly for fun. Years ago, I think they banned the word `ultra.` Remember ultra-toothpaste, ulta-dish soaps, etc? Everything was ultra-this or ultra-that.
Although I’m not usually in favor of censorship, I’d like to bannish the term ‘global warming’ and w/it...Algore.
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