GolfHos

http://www.startribune.com/local/12941401.html

Organic, webinar, "a perfect storm" and "it is what it is" -- they are among the words and phrases that send shivers up and down the spines of English language purists who say they are overused, misused, have no use, and should be banned.

The 19 words and phrases included on the 2008 List of Words Banished came from more than 2,000 nominations sent to Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., which has been publishing its list of affronts to the English language for 33 years............

Link to the list:

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

Will the dumbassness never end?

My sister used to say this ALL the time, until I started using it back. LOL

I vote to decimate this thread.

oh no he din't

I'm sick of the phrase "it is what it is". 

And I used it yesterday for the first time.  My wife looked at me like I was crazy, and my eyes widened in amazement!  I couldn't believe I had actually used that phrase. [sm_shock] [sm_shock]

you are who you thought you are.

So much for my everyday working vernacular

LOL I knew sooner or later someone would break out the red latex "hat". ;D

Couldn't help myself.  I just couldn't.

Apparently. :o

Can we banish "dude"?

*note* not THE Dude.
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l209/gvandel454/TV%20and%20Movie%20Stuff/TheDude.jpg)

As opposed to Zappa writing "What you is is what you is" which was just a great line, the next person that says to my face "it is what it is" I'm gonna give them the Moe Howard bitch slap.

And if they say "it is what it is dude" I may just have to kill them.

Any you'd probably get off. ;D

LOL...nah...I'm not rich enough to beat a murder rap.  ;D

No, dude, we can't.  That just wouldn't be sweet at all!

It would decimate our perfect storm of random surge wordsmithing.

Karma for channeling the VP of my division at work. Probably should smite your ass.  [sm_devil] ;D ;)

And our emotional webinar on organic potatoes would be thrown under a bus.

LOL  +1 for you as well.

Did you learn how to author that from a webinar about completely throwing the English language under the bus with your emotional writing style? In this Post 9/11 age, it's easy to forget that back in the day, one used to give back to the English language by using only organic words. People act like English is the new Greek by waterboarding the language with linguistic garbage such as this. I ought to pop you in head on Black Friday.

Pièce de résistance

Buzzword Bingo surrenders

Hehehehe.... you said vernacular.... ;)