those words are so last decade
consider that in this new year and decade, there are certain words that are verboten. these words, according to lake superior state university’s 35th annual “list of words banished from the queen’s english for mis-use, over-use and general uselessness” should never be uttered by people again. looking at the list (below), i’ve a few comments: something tells me we’ll be hearing #15 for at least the next three years; #4 will remain huge until people figure out that twitter will go the way of facebook and will look for ways to make money off of your boring tweets communications; and while i know #14 is annoying, i’m still planning to use it.
1. Shovel-ready
2. Transparent/Transparency
3. Czar
4. Tweet
5. App
6. Sexting
7. Friend as a verb
8. Teachable Moment
9. In These Economic Times…
10. Stimulus
11. Toxic Assets
12. Too Big to Fail
13. Bromance
14. Chillaxin’
15. Obama as a prefix
for reference, here is a link to the word list from 2009. i’m glad we use maverick less and am a little sad that #3 is getting used more frequently.
image courtesy of wordle.
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