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'Banished' words: 'Bae,' 'swag,' 'polar vortex'
Odd_News ^ | Dec. 31, 2014 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 01/01/2015 8:09:19 AM PST by Brother Cracker

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich.,- A Michigan university said its 40th annual list of "banished" words includes "bae," "polar vortex," "hack," "skill set," "swag," and "foodie."

Lake Superior State University said its annual "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness" was chosen by members of a committee from submissions by the public.

Topping the list this year was "bae," a term of endearment that came into common use this year. "Meaning 'before anyone else.' How stupid! Stop calling your boyfriend 'bae,'" Evie Dunagan of Manheim, Pa., wrote in submitting the word for banishment.

LSSU said it got a head start on banishing the word "Polar Vortex" in the spring, when students "burned" a snowman named "Mr. Polar Vortex."

The school said the word "hack" was banished for "over-use and misuse" stemming from the popularity of tips and tricks dubbed "life hacks."

"Suddenly things that once would have been called 'tips' are now being called 'hacks.' It can't be because the one word is shorter or easier to say; and the actual accepted meanings of 'hack' have nothing to do with suggestions for doing tasks better or more efficiently -- quite the opposite, really," wrote submitter Sharla Hulsey of Sac City, Iowa.

The school said it is finally adding "swag" to the list after receiving numerous nominations during the past few years.

Other words making this year's list include "skill set," "foodie," "curate," "friend-raising," "cra-cra," "enhanced interrogation," "takeaway," and "nation" used as a suffix by sports fans.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: bae; banishedwords; foodie; hack; lakesuperiorstate; michigan; polarvortex; saultstemarie; skillset; swag
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1 posted on 01/01/2015 8:09:19 AM PST by Brother Cracker
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To: Brother Cracker

Polar vortex was my pet peeve last year. For almost 70 years, all I heard was “dip in the jet stream”. Who knew??


2 posted on 01/01/2015 8:13:02 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Brother Cracker

BAE caught me slippin'.

3 posted on 01/01/2015 8:17:13 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Brother Cracker

SWAG=Scientific Wild-Assed Guessing. Has for years.


4 posted on 01/01/2015 8:18:14 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Brother Cracker

How charming, a new crop of little fascists.


5 posted on 01/01/2015 8:18:33 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Brother Cracker

how about MACACA?


6 posted on 01/01/2015 8:20:00 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Brother Cracker

Words that should be banished...Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Obama, Boehner, Clinton, Warren...


7 posted on 01/01/2015 8:20:38 AM PST by albie
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To: Brother Cracker

What?

I’ve just started using “foodie” as I’ve begun making a serious effort to improve my cooking skills and now it’s banned?

I reject this censorship.


8 posted on 01/01/2015 8:21:37 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Brother Cracker

Curiously, My bae — who is a foodie — hacked the skill-set required to take a SWAG at the polar vortex.


9 posted on 01/01/2015 8:21:38 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Two parties, governing AGAINST the will of the people, not with the consent of the governed." --MrB)
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To: Sacajaweau

The “Polar Vortex” was never a real problem. But there is such a thing as the Liberal Vortex which has put a “chill” over the entire country for several decades.


10 posted on 01/01/2015 8:21:45 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Brother Cracker

I want to ban anyone who wants to ban anything.


11 posted on 01/01/2015 8:23:01 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Lazamataz

Wow! You excel at the old “use this word in a sentence” drill that was the bane of my childhood.


12 posted on 01/01/2015 8:24:27 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: miss marmelstein

Don’t these colleges have enough issues on their hands than to waste money of stupid issues such as these?


13 posted on 01/01/2015 8:25:59 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37

The problem is that they have too much money and then can use it frivolously.


14 posted on 01/01/2015 8:27:13 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Yardstick

Hey Yardstick - quite sure you are OK, it’s just these self appointed, and important types that take multiple phone pics and review every morsel they consume, to be the problem here.
They are the “Foodies” in question.

Happy New Year, to you, and yours, in 2015 :)


15 posted on 01/01/2015 8:27:21 AM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: Brother Cracker

This from the demographic that doesn’t know to from too.


16 posted on 01/01/2015 8:30:53 AM PST by lee martell
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To: miss marmelstein
Wow! You excel at the old “use this word in a sentence” drill that was the bane of my childhood.

All things are possible, when your motivation is to piss off Lake Superior State University. :)

17 posted on 01/01/2015 8:32:16 AM PST by Lazamataz ("Two parties, governing AGAINST the will of the people, not with the consent of the governed." --MrB)
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To: Brother Cracker

Also on the ban list: conservative, christian, truth and God.


18 posted on 01/01/2015 8:38:37 AM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: Brother Cracker

“Bae” is more acceptable to me than “baby”, which I never understood. Why call a grown man “baby”?


19 posted on 01/01/2015 8:39:10 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: lee martell
This from the demographic that doesn’t know to from too.

Not to mention there/their/they're and your/you're. And, my personal favorite: "should of" (as well as "could of" and "would of.")

20 posted on 01/01/2015 8:41:19 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree ( When dems win, it's a mandate. When we win, we must compromise.)
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