drum roll ...................
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Now. If you have read my post from earlier today, you would already know that this particular word is also on the 2006 banned word list. So what's up with this shit? Is the Banned Word List comparable to the tabloids, running an innocent word into the ground before its time? Is the Lake Superior State University on a quest to see how much it can influence our word usage?
Is Merriam-Webster Online going against the flow as a show of independence?
Enquiring minds want to know.
9 comments:
I don't like this word. Let us never speak of it again!
I think someone's engaging in lieiness.
Peace
This is a terrible word, just terrible!!
OK.... there's one word that seems to have been omitted here that makes me absolutely NUTS.... and that's "conversate" or "conversating" now THAT'S something that should be BANNED! I mean... c'monnnnn
Perhaps we should come up with our OWN list??? hmmmm
Wow! "Truthiness" is my favourite new word since the "scientician" was introduced on The Simpsons.
Bikerbabenj, "administrate" is the only -ate word more jarring than "conversate" -- as everyone knows, the correct word is "conversationalize."
Since when did you start listening to what any university said anyway?
I'm with Lake Superior on this one.
Although, of course, the Merriam-Webster dictionary is a pretender to the throne. It wishes it was the OED!
Yes, I just made a dictionary joke. I am, officially, a total geek.
I'm with Odat. Lieiness is clearly where it's at.
You guys are so smart you scare me sometimes.
*Backing away from the word posts and returning to fluff ideas......*
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