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LSSU Banished Words List

Proud2baLaker

Proud2baLaker

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The annual Banished Words List has been released by Lake Superior State Univeristy. Simples words like "Amazing" as well as phrases like "baby bump" and "win the future" appear on the list. Thoughts? What else should be added?
 
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Proud2baLaker said:
The annual Banished Words List has been released by Lake Superior State Univeristy. Simples words like "Amazing" as well as phrases like "baby bump" and "win the future" appear on the list. Thoughts? What else should be added?
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"Action" IS NOT A VERB. "We'll action that piece of business." No you will not.

"Abundance of caution." It is ALWAYS those three words used when they lock down a school because someone brought a butter knife in their lunchbox.
 
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The word "trickeration" is symbolic of something that happened in this country. People who used words like that used to be kept in the attic, fed scraps, and forbidden to breed. Now they are on TV.

I would add all of these words whenever used in a political speech.
 
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my boss just sent me an email with "the new normal" in it. :D


here's an acronym that I find annoying: ty

you're so grateful you can't even type out "thank you" or "thanks"? I get this in IM and email all the time - not just texts. I also find "thx" annoying, but not nearly as much as "ty".
 
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Dude, I'd like to add the word "dude". My kids say it all the time. I'd also like to add the words "never" and "always". My kids say "always" and "never" all, er, quite requently as well. I "never" let them have friends over. I "always" make son #2 take the garbage out. I really hammer on them with never and always. I actually think I'm making some headway.

I don't think "amazing" is over-used, and I love the word "ginormous", which just typing the word puts a smile on my face.
 
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The word "baby"....

Blame Justin Bieber and Dickie V. on that one....
 
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Id like to ban the phrase - "Its a Numbers Game" boss says it all the time and drives me insane
 
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The name "Millennial" for the current generation.

I HATE this name. It's already accumulated such a negative stereotype (the whole lazy/spoiled/entitled thing invariably has the word Millennial after it.)

Plus every other generation got cool names. The Silent Generation. The Boomers. Generation X. And now you have Millennials. It makes me feel singled out like I'm "special" (and not necessarily in a good way.) Makes us sound like a cult or a type of flower. (Which plays RIGHT INTO THE STEREOTYPE!)

Can we pick a different name?
 
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Fun Fact: The word trickeration started as a mis-speech by former Texas coach/ESPN analyst John Mackovic when he became apoplectic during a highlight package at the fact that Wisconsin had to resort to using a trick play against one of their usual high school-level non-conference opponents.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
The name "Millennial" for the current generation.

I HATE this name. It's already accumulated such a negative stereotype (the whole lazy/spoiled/entitled thing invariably has the word Millennial after it.)
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?? Confused by this. "Lazy/spoiled/entitled" invariably follows "Gen X." I always hear the Millennials referred to as the next heroic generation. (Because you're basically going to have no choice, after the Boomers tax-cut and spend us into bankruptcy, and then the Gen Xers commit mass suicide because they didn't get the lifetime free ride they thought the universe owed them.)

I think you guys are the only ones coming off looking good in the stereotype battle.
 
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?? Confused by this. "Lazy/spoiled/entitled" invariably follows "Gen X." I always hear the Millennials referred to as the next heroic generation. (Because you're basically going to have no choice, after the Boomers tax-cut and spend us into bankruptcy, and then the Gen Xers commit mass suicide because they didn't get the lifetime free ride they thought the universe owed them.)

I think you guys are the only ones coming off looking good in the stereotype battle.
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The way the Boomers talk it's going to be US committing that mass suicide. Apparently not wanting to work 80 hour weeks just to live in the bottom of a well means we want to bring Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong back from the dead and we're all going to burn in hell.

The only real negative stereotype I've heard about X-ers is slacker. They're "cool" and they put their own life first. A lot of Millennials look up to them (especially early ones like me who may have shared some of their memories.) I've never really heard of them getting the "entitlement" crap the Millennials got.

However, X-ers also get the dubious honor of dealing with Kurt "I Make Good Life Choices" Cobain as their spokesman.
 
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Where is "winning" said in a sneering voice a la Charlie Sheen. This is the word de jour for everything in the teen population here.

Also any word said with the first syllable way drawn out as in awwwwkward or the change in inflection as in Really? Seriously?
 
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I nominate the word 'Physicality'. Jocks turned sports analysts have been misusing this word so long that it no longer means what it once did.
"I've never seen a team play with such physicality before" or in proper english, "I've never seen a team play so physical before." I think it started with some football jock with a third grade edumacation wanting to sound smarter, so he used a long word.

A close second is "definately". Also used by athletes being interviewed after a game.
Repoter: You guys came back in the second half to pull off a big upset. How did you do it?
Athlete: Definately, we had heart and fought back.
Reporter: You normally play a tough man to man defense. Why did the coach change to a zone late in the game?
Athlete: Definately, we wanted to change it up and give them another look.
 
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