Do you agree these words should be banned?
Please feel free to disagree with this.
Have fun~ Jennifer
Here are some of the 17 banned words and phrases on the 2004 list, complete with definitions, that were winnowed down from some 5,000 entries:
Metrosexual: An urban male who pays too much attention to his appearance. As one submitter wrote, "It sounds like someone who only has sex downtown or on the subway."
X: Last year it was "extreme." This year, it's "X" as in Generation-X, Xtreme, Windows XP, and X-Box.
Punked or Punk'd: As in bamboozled, duped, flimflammed, hornswoggled. An old noun given new life as a verb because of the television show.
Place Stamp Here: It appears on almost every return envelope provided by our dear creditors in their monthly billings. Many even include a drawn square in case we can't locate the proper space on our own. As the submitter of this phrase questioned, "Can we legitimately claim to be a superpower if we need to be reminded to put a stamp on an envelope?"
Companion Animals: In plain English, they're called pets.
Bling or Bling-Bling: It's street slang for items of luxury, especially flashy jewelry. But it's been abused and overused to such a point that your mom might actually say it!
LOL: A favorite Instant Message and e-mail shorthand symbol. As one submitter who is just bored by it all says, "OMG! u r chattin to sum1 then...lol this and lol that...Get it away!"
Smoking Gun: What's wrong with hard evidence instead?
Shock and Awe: A Pentagon favorite from the war in Iraq. Can Shock and Awe Laundry Soap or Shock and Awe Pool Cleaner be far away?
Captured Alive: Could anyone ever be captured dead?
Sweat Like a Pig: To be anatomically correct, pigs don't have sweat glands. So they can't sweat. That's why they roll around in the mud to cool themselves.
Sanitary Landfill: If you've ever been to a landfill, you learned this if nothing else: It's not a clean place. Call it what it really is: The dump.
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Re: Illegal words, from daily life to even ones used online.
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January 8 2004, 8:54 PM
sony recently bought the term "shock and awe" for millions of dollars so that they could use on video games and other electronic products, so it doesnt look like that phrase is going to go away anytime soon, even though it would be nice.
"But dad you don't understand."
"Honey just because i don't care doesn't mean i don't understand." -Homer Simpson
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If you look in a dictionary, "ain't" can be found. It was originally created as a contraction of "am not" but was abused and improperly used by many. It is now obsolete and non standard english, and is heavily looked down upon by english buffs. Even when used properly, it sounds wierd. Well, to me, anyway.
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I SAY WE BAN THE PHRASES "WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION", "THE AXIS OF EVIL", AND "THE AXIS OF OPPOSITION"
copyrighting the term shock and awe is kinda like that when FOX sued Al Franken for used the phrase "fair and balanced" in his book. it didn't go over well though, i heard that it was literally laughed out of court.
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If you graduated from high school--no matter the year!--you should know these 10 words, according to the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Actually you should 90 more, too. And they're all in "100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know." But let's start with these 10.
Top 10 words you should know:
abstemious
bellicose
chromosome
filibuster
gauche
gerrymander
interpolate
irony
plagiarize
suffragist
~ Do you know these by heart?~
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"Even when I was in a crowd I was always alone" Ernest Hemingway
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I think "LoL" is the most overused anoying internet lingo thingy around. Cmon, when I hear a joke I may chuckle, but I don't Laugh Out Loud. Just say ha, less letters...
Agreed Chris, odd that plagirise is up there, it is probably the only word on the list that everyone knows the meaning too.(I know about 5 on that list).
1 word I would like them to ban
Bittersweat
Metrosexual what is that? I simple refer to those people as Homosexuals.(I know, one minded...)
Well... on the topic of overused and annoying, how about "tho".
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Me: Well, i'm going to go. I'm going out for pizza. I just found a toonie on the floor, so why not use it?
~If you didn't know any of those 10 words, then you probably won't know the other 90~ But how many of these words do you know by heart?~
abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
chicanery
chromosome
churlish
circumlocution
circumnavigate
deciduous
deleterious
diffident
enervate
enfranchise
epiphany
equinox
euro
evanescent
expurgate
facetious
fatuous
feckless
fiduciary
filibuster
gamete
gauche
gerrymander
hegemony
hemoglobin
homogeneous
hubris
hypotenuse
impeach
incognito
incontrovertible
inculcate
infrastructure
interpolate
irony
jejune
kinetic
kowtow
laissez faire
lexicon
loquacious
NOT to start another fight or anything, but why are you still here? I thought you swore an oath of silence or something. And you never post anything in relation to the books, are you aware that Sirius dies, by the way?
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Yes I know he does, that is why I hate the ending of book 5. 'Cause Sirus was one of my favorite characters.
And I am causing no trouble, I am following the rules.
Jennifer
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And Narc I thought this topic was very interesting, 'cuase my english teacher makes a big deal on us knowing those 100 words by heart. He says that all people who got a middle-high scores on the s.a.t. knew and still know these words, even after grad.
Jennifer
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