Comments on: Bling Bling, You're Dead

Bling Bling, You're Dead

wendell — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:41:17 -0800

One of my favorite things about New Year's Eve/Day is the annual announcement of the Hall of Shame of Linguistic Incorrectness: The Lake Superior State University List of Banished Words. Metrosexual... bling-bling... embedded journalist... shock and awe... not much to argue with here. Uh, oh, they've banished Smoking Gun. And "LOL"? WTF? (The latest list hasn't hit the U's own website yet, but here's their complete listing of the previously banished, going back to 1976.)

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:52:49 -0800

... embedded journalist ... Isn't that what you get when you shoot a journalist out of a cannon into a brick wall? Or was that out of a canon?

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:05:42 -0800

I've never heard anyone say "hand-crafted latte." And wouldn't "X" be more properly referred to as a banished letter?

By: benjh

benjh — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:15:32 -0800

... embedded journalist ... No, that's a journalist embedded up George W Bush's rear point. Oh wait, thats every journalist.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:52:46 -0800

I refuse to give up "sweat like a pig" (unless something can think of a better way to say it)

By: Down10

Down10 — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:58:45 -0800

They didn't have "Get Your ____ On", "-izzle" or "Teh" for annoying slang. Maybe next year.

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:20:33 -0800

I already declared "embedded reporter" as the Most Overused Term of the Year in the MSNBC.com Year End TV summary, he self-linked. (18th item, 2/3 down the page) amber, I prefer to use "grunt like a pig" and "sweat like a pro wrestler"... And the "-izzle" thing already got sent up in TV Guide (seen in supermarket line, not online) which pointed out that after the Old Navy commercial in which Fran Drescher said "My shizzle's gone fa-zizzle", it was all over... This really hasn't been LSSU's most on-target year... could be the first big step toward what one blogger calls "the Mr. Blackwell of usage".

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:51:26 -0800

"Regime" as an epithet for governments we don't like. Stop using it. Now.

By: Ayn Marx

Ayn Marx — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:49:48 -0800

... after the Old Navy commercial in which Fran Drescher said "My shizzle's gone fa-zizzle", it was all over... I'd really like to believe that, but given then number of rubes still saying "my bad" I find myself skeptical. ... could be the first big step toward what one blogger calls "the Mr. Blackwell of usage". I thought William Safire already had that title (though I hardly expect the typical blogger to know who he is, given that they seem to spend most of their time smelling each other's farts).

By: Shoeburyness

Shoeburyness — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 01:13:19 -0800

I've never heard "hand crafted latte" before, but one instance is enough to convince me it should be banned. As if what, someone individually hand carved the coffee beans? The -izzleization of words simply must go. It's lightyears beyond stupid.

By: shadow45

shadow45 — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 00:31:43 -0800

lol