2012 Banished Words List announced - I helped banish "Shared sacrifice" ;-)

[UrbScotty]

Lake Superior State University released its 37th annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness, an amazing list that is bound to generate some blowback.

"Worn-out words and phrases are the new normal this year, but with some shared sacrifice, we can clean up the language and win the future," said an LSSU representative.

LSSU wordsmiths emerged from their man cave long enough to release the new list, something the school has done since 1976.

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Former LSSU Public Relations Director Bill Rabe and friends created "word banishment" in 1975 at a New Year's Eve party and released the first list on New Year's Day. Since then, LSSU has received tens of thousands of nominations for the list, which includes words and phrases from marketing, media, education, politics, technology and more.

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/

This year's list includes:

*Amazing
*Baby bump
*Shared sacrifice
*Occupy
*Blowback
*Man Cave
*The new normal
*Pet parent
*Win the future
*Trickeration
*Ginormous
*Thank you in advance

I was quoted in the list as saying the following about shared sacrifice:

"Usually used by a politician who wants other people to share in the sacrifice so he/she doesn’t have to." Scott Urbanowski, Kentwood, Michigan

[shanti]

1. A-MAZING

please retire this word, i am sick of it!!!!

[UnrepentantLiberal]

2. Epic fail.

Congratulations for getting your suggestion published.

[dimbear]

3. IMHO, gynormous isn't spelled right. Also, is a baby bump unprotected sex? n/t

[UnrepentantLiberal]

4.

http://firstmention.com/ginormous.aspx

[dimbear]

10. We used to use that word down in Georgia. It's convenient for describing certain quantities.

Of course, my neighbors and I weren't precisely spelling authorities. More on the order of yokels. "I saw a gynormous coon hound last weekend."

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. portmanteau of 'gigantic' and 'enormous'

And that's from the OED.

[Phentex]

5. I wish they'd add...

"at the end of the day" which is said ten times per second world-wide.

[hlthe2b]

6. I am grateful that "baby bump" is on the list....

I find the term--particularly popular with the glitterati crowd-- to be incredibly patronizing. Pregnant women are competent adult human beings. Such cutesy terms demean them, IMO.

Gawd, I hate that and those who do so. It is NOT cute. But those using that term ARE childish.

[GoCubsGo]

14. Me, too. I despise it.

I only wish that people would heed the "ban" and stop using that idiotic term. I also wish men would stop saying "We're pregnant." Ummmm...no. Sorry, Bub. Unless you are a seahorse, you are not pregnant.

[hlthe2b]

20. Oh, YES... That "we're pregnant" drives me absolutely INSANE....

Honestly, it doesn't seem we've gotten very far since the era of the common euphemism ("in the family way&quot ... Uggh.

[LeftinOH]

7. "Thank you in advance" isn't trendy.. it's been around a long time,

and it's very common in business communication. As for "blowback" -this is still a pretty good definition for certain things, most especially to define foreign policy decisions that seem like a good idea at the time, but come back to haunt you decades later. Think of the US-assisted overthrow of Iran's government in 1953. The "blowback" there has been ginormous.

[meow2u3]

8. Occupy is banished?!

A bunch of 1%ers, all of them!

[UrbScotty]

13. In fairness, they have banished a lot of right-wing-ish words and phrases too

...including Mama Grizzly, maverick, and refudiate.

[YankeyMCC]

9. "That said.." would be my nomination

Although I'm guilty of using this that is one reason I want it banished. I cringe whenever I realize it's just come out of my own mouth.

It to flippant a shorthand for what you really think of what you just said in relation to what you're about to say.

"They do good work. That said..."

on edit: well i guess that's a phrase not a word. Still that said ...

[Bombero1956]

11. my entry

it is what it is.

[MorningGlow]

12. What I'd like to see make a list in the near future

"...and I'll tell you why." What a pompous, irritating, senseless pile of useless words.

[LeftishBrit]

15. Good for you

I hate that expression, and its British twin, 'We're all in this together'.

[Aristus]

16. So help me, if I ever hear the phrase "job creators" again......

[Justice wanted]

17. More a phrase than a word BUT "War on Christmas"

[blue_onyx]

19. I hate the term "shared sacrifice"

I completely agree with your statement.