One of those inevitable year-end traditions is
Lake Superior State University's List of Banished Words, led this year by the currently ubiquitous
"Fiscal Cliff", followed by the related political/economic shorthand
"Kick the Can Down the Road". Of course,
"YOLO" is on the list (
as I predicted), along with
"Double Down" (surprisingly NOT in reference to the
KFC menu item),
"Job Creators",
"Spoiler Alert",
"Bucket List",
"Guru" (
didn't Mike Myers kill that word in 2008?), the marketing-speak
"Superfood", the twitter-driven verbed noun
"Trending", the oxymoronic
"Boneless Wings" and this year's pick for 'word that has lost all meaning':
"Passionate". Of course, Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV, an acronym not yet banned, but give it time...)
posted by oneswellfoop
on Dec 31, 2012 -
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