Website review: Lake Superior State University :: B...
Bongo23 discovered this in Linguistics
•22 reviews since Jan 1, 2005
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•lssu.edu/banished/current.php
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Bongo23 discovered 41 months ago- Occasionally, guilty as charged.
- mcgroovymama rated 2 weeks ago
- great list
- wildmustard rated 4 months ago
- Please, can we add 'heinous' to the list? 99% of the people who use this word have absolutely no idea what it means.
- simpletwist rated 4 months ago
- Forever may be stretching it, but the annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness has been going strong since New Year's Day 1976 and shows no signs of stopping. People from around the world have nominated hundreds of words and phrases such as "you know," "user friendly," "at this point in time," and "have a nice day," to be purged from the language... The 32nd annual banishment list of words/phrases which will hopefully fade from usage within the decade...doubtful. The following is THE one that really gets on my nerves. In my workplace, I hear it spoken often, sometimes several spews in one day. It amazes to realize there are no obvious generational determinants of users. Just yesterday I had a chat with a little ol' grandma lady who started a story she was telling me by saying it. "Well, Honey, back in the day, we had to write the due date in the front cover of all them books. Y'all have it real easy what with them there computer slips you tuck inside the cover. Me? I still like writing in them books. Those slips a'paper jist flutter out to the floor and get swept up by Hoover. If I relied on those, I'da never turn them books in on time!" Sweet and innocent book vandal that she admits to being, I'm almost willing to allow her and other "olders" the usage - when the rest of the herd moves on that is. "BACK IN THE DAY" "Back in the day, we used 'back-in-the-day' to mean something really historical. Now you hear ridiculous statements such as 'Back in the day, people used Blackberries without Blue Tooth.'" Liz Jameson, Tallahassee, Florida. "This one might've already made the list back in the day, which was a Wednesday, I think." Tim Bradley, Los Angeles, California.
- pamur rated 5 months ago
- The new list is out. As dangerous as it is to limit the supply of words on a site such as Stumbleupon, I say let them go.
- crzdmd rated 5 months ago
- I wish someone, in this post-911 world, would give back by authoring a webinar on how to throw some of these sweet words under the bus or at least decimate them.
- Preeters rated 17 months ago
- From the page: "HEALTHY FOOD -- Point of view is everything. Someone told Joy Wiltzius of Fort Collins, Colorado, that the tuna steak she had for lunch "sounded healthy." Her reply: "If my lunch were healthy, it would still be swimming somewhere. Grilled and nestled in salad greens, it's 'healthful.'""
- Malory rated 17 months ago
- A list of words to be banished. For 2006. Let's hope they go away in 2007. Though I admit I only realized what "TomKat" meant about a month ago. Uh, come to think of it, I'm sort of pleased I didn't get it. I do disagree with "went missing" -- it fills a void and dispenses with "has gone," which is rather much. And chipotle. Jack in the Box taught everyone east of the Rockies how to pronounce it, so what's the problem? It's so much quicker to say than "roasted jalepenos." It's a fun word. A word to say instead of "cheese" to get someone to smile for the camera. In other words, it's groovy!
- Daveman rated 17 months ago
- You know, I really wanted to like this list. As it is, it's mostly just a pathetic attempt at humor. At this, it fails. I feel like making another bulleted list... but I won't. I fully support that we stop combining celebrity names, saying "we're pregnant", referring to any food as "healthy", or quoting anything ever said by Stephen Colbert. The other stuff, though... it's lame. "Now playing in theaters" is and always has been an alternative to "now on video". Chipotle is a trendy food item. Not liking the name for it doesn't mean you can banish it. I mean, I hate the name "raisin", but it's pretty much stuck where it is. And, when I use "awesome", I ALWAYS mean "awe inspiring".
Oh, and to Michael Raczko from Swanton, Ohio, who suggests not saying "search" anymore because it's been replaced by "google", I say the following: USING GOOGLE AS A VERB IS THE WORST NEOLOGISM EVER!! I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND MAKE YOU SUFFER SO BAD YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SLEEP AT NIGHT UNLESS YOU HAVE "GOOGLED" FOR ME UNDER YOUR BED AND IN YOUR CLOSET FIRST!!
Thank you. - You know, I really wanted to like this list. As it is, it's mostly just a pathetic attempt at humor. At this, it fails. I feel like making another bulleted list... but I won't. I fully support that we stop combining celebrity names, saying "we're pregnant", referring to any food as "healthy", or quoting anything ever said by Stephen Colbert. The other stuff, though... it's lame. "Now playing in theaters" is and always has been an alternative to "now on video". Chipotle is a trendy food item. Not liking the name for it doesn't mean you can banish it. I mean, I hate the name "raisin", but it's pretty much stuck where it is. And, when I use "awesome", I ALWAYS mean "awe inspiring".
- LightChaser rated 17 months ago
- "Someone told Joy Wiltzius of Fort Collins, Colorado, that the tuna steak she had for lunch "sounded healthy." Her reply: "If my lunch were healthy, it would still be swimming somewhere. Grilled and nestled in salad greens, it's 'healthful.'""
