05-02-2003, 06:59 AM
Dunno if any of you have seen this before, but with some of the complaining about each others english, I thought you might enjoy it:
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/
Every year they make a list of words that were over-used and mis-used that year. Anyone who follows world issues or the media will greatly enjoy flipping through some of the archives as well as this year's banished words.
My favorites so far from this year:
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/
Every year they make a list of words that were over-used and mis-used that year. Anyone who follows world issues or the media will greatly enjoy flipping through some of the archives as well as this year's banished words.
My favorites so far from this year:
Quote:UNTIMELY DEATH -- Balky attempt to make some deaths more tragic than others. âHas anyone yet died a timely death?â asks Donald Burgess of South Pasadena, California.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION -- Used more and more (and just too much according to James of Canberra, Australia) as a card that trumps all forms of aggression. In danger of becoming a push-button buzzword. Many nominators point out that any weapon, used effectively, does a lot of destruction. âA few thousand machetes in the hands of an army in Africa can lead to mass genocide,â writes Howard Stacy of Atlanta, Georgia.
Jack Newman of Cypress, Texas, often hears the hybrid, âwepuhmadistricshun.â
âOver-used, over-wrought.â Michelle Gill, Chicago, Illinois.
AS PER -- âAs per a conversation I had with a co-worker and âas perâ common decency to your fellow human beings, please substitute âaccording to.â If I hear âas perâ ever again, I will need to take some âasperin.ââ Greg Gibson, Tucson, Arizona.
UNDISCLOSED, SECRET LOCATION â Redundant stacking of adjectives often used to describe Vice President Cheneyâs whereabouts. âIf itâs a secret, itâs pretty undisclosed, and if itâs undisclosed, itâs a secret,â says Bill Lodholz of Davis, California.
