Banished Words for 2007

[lagizma]

Lake Superior State University issues a list of banished words each New Year's Day. I featured last year's in my livejournal when my mom alerted me to the list. Here are the 2007 Banished Words:

GITMO -- The US military's shorthand for a base in Cuba drives a wedge wider than a split infinitive.

"When did the notorious Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

Comments

[blozor]

I have no idea what happened to the LICD link before. The HTML checks out, but for some reason it decided that the second quotation mark was part of the IP address instead of the HTML coding. If only LJ would let us edit. It should work now.

i-Anything - I think this comic strip says all it needs to in the last panel: Jorbs

pwn - My favorite comic strip concerning this aberration of grammar: courtesy Least I Could Do

Slightly off-topic, but one of my favorite grammar comics is this one: Hyphen. You will never think of this descriptor the same way again.

[davidgallaher1]

"That a mop, a deodorant or a dating service can be called 'awesome'demonstrates the limited vocabularies of the country's copywriters." --Tom Brinkmoeller, Orlando, Florida.

I'm a copywriter. I use the word AWESOME all the fucking time, but rarely in any of my ads.

I think were should banish the word 'Florida' from our vocabularies for a year. Life would be a whole lot fucking simpler. Fucking Florida!

[xterminal]

Prior to 2005 . . . a roasted jalapeno.

Not to anyone with ten minutes' cooking experience and half a brain.

[helpimarock]

Fuuuuuck 'google' as a verb or common noun. And i-Anythings. Except the iTrip -- I bought one and that thing turned out to be pretty handy. It was better than digging into my car's dashboard and hooking up a headphone jack on short notice at any rate.

I totally agree with the "We're pregnant" thing. Wtf, are you high? No, you're not. Yeah, it takes a guy with a high level of douchiness to utter that phrase.