Saturday, January 2, 2010

List of Banned Words and Phrases on 2009



Watch your words.

Lake Superior State University has recently released a list of useless phrases after thousands of nominations.

Some of the words on the 35th annual list of words that they believe should be banned from our vocabulary:


shovel-ready
sexting
tweeting
retweeting
tweetaholics
unfriended
bromance
chillin
relaxin
chillaxin
teachable moment
toxic assets
in these economic times
transparent/transparency
czar

If you can see, most of the words and phrases are used on social networking sites and offshoot of the economic recession that world experienced on 2009.

Any words/phrases you are using that is included in the list? What do you think of these words/phrases being tried to be thrown into the garbage can?



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1 comment:

jan geronimo said...

Interesting stunt. But why ban them at all? True, some of those words are terrible. Time will tell which ones will remain close to the people's heart and might make find universal acceptance. And others will fall by the wayside like yesterday's news. One little note though. The word "unfriend" had already made it to one major dictionary. Forgot which.

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