Showing posts with label English websites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English websites. Show all posts

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Banned English Words

Apparently Lake Superior State College cares about English...or their linguistics have a sense of humour...

Every year they vote on which English words should be banned from usage.Here is the list for this year.
It makes me a little sad, I think the overuse of 'amazing' is a cultural thing. I know here many of my students, when trying to sound more American, will use 'amazing' or 'awesome' to describe almost anything that is remotely interesting.

I mean I agree that we have made 'amazing' that much less amazing, but I will proudly continue in my awesome use of amazing and I thank you in advance for your understanding! ;)

I do agree with getting rid of 'the new normal', or it's sibling 'the new norm'. Just seems too much for me.

I've never seen 'pet parent' before or 'trickeration'.

At first I thought it was a term children used for parents that give the child everything they want....apparently not so much. Apparently it means a person who owns a pet and treats it like a child...(which I would never ever do with my cat....ever...though he is quite cute!)

'Trickeration' is just ridiculous...tricky is a great word.