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For years Michigan’s Lake Superior State University has released its “List of Words Banished From the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse & General Uselessness”.
Here is this year’s crop — and why they are no longer to be used, effective immediately…
✗ G.O.A.T: The acronym for ‘Greatest of All Time’ doesn’t require a genius to determine the literal impossibility and technical vagueness of this wannabe superlative. (Greatest. Addition. To. This. List. Of. All. Time.)
✗ Inflection point: This mathematical term has entered everyday parlance and lost its original meaning. Really, it’s just a pretentious way of saying “turning point”. (You might say the inflection point has reached its saturation point!)
✗ Quiet quitting: Trendy but inaccurate. Not an employee who inconspicuously resigns – but an employee who completes the minimum requirements for a position. (A fancy way of saying “work to rule”?)
✗ Gaslighting: On one hand, its overuse has watered-down its connection to the real concern it used to identify: dangerous psychological manipulation that causes victims to distrust their thoughts, feelings, or perception of reality. On the other hand, people are now using the term incorrectly to refer to any conflict or disagreement.
✗ Moving forward: This overused term is often used by politicians and other leaders for their own self-interest, evasion or disingenuousness. (Also, if we aren’t going to ‘move forward’, where else would we go?)
✗ Amazing: A worn-out adjective used by people who are short on vocabulary. (Also, not everything is amazing – and when you think about it, very little is!)
✗ Does that make sense? Saying that phrase is needy, scheming and/or cynical. And passive aggressive. (Here’s an idea: When you say stuff, make sure it makes sense!)
✗ Irregardless: Uh, it’s not a word. Is that a good enough reason? ‘Regardless’ is sufficient. (Irregardless, it IS in the dictionary…)
✗ Absolutely: Or, just say “yes”.
✗ It is what it is: This phrase was also ‘banned’ in 2008 because of its pointlessness, and the fact that using it is basically a “cop-out”. (I mean, of course it is what it is. What else would it be?)
(This list of banned words “is what it is”. What would you like to add?)
CLICK HERE To see previous years list
Blog Credit : –LSSU
