Pretentious university has the audacity to demand you change your vocabulary

[Im2bent]

Apparently these dickheads come out with a new list of words they want banished every year, because it hurts their feelings. It is what it is

Banished Words | Lake Superior State University 2024

The wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University have released LSSU's newest annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.

www.lssu.edu

 

[W54/XM-388]

So simply copy and pasting parts of 1984 as their operating guide I see.

 

[Maser]

I'm cool with "GOAT" being on the list. Then again I pretty much hate all acronyms that have been overused by my generation for years!

 

[SBRSarge]

Apparently these dickheads come out with a new list of words they want banished every year, because it hurts their feelings. It is what it is

Banished Words | Lake Superior State University 2024

The wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University have released LSSU's newest annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.

www.lssu.edu

It isn’t about political correctness or social outrage or dickheads with hurt feelings.

It is a decades-old tradition wherein they lampoon over-used and silly words and phrases that have achieved un-deserved popularity.

Take it for what it is and how it is meant. It is actually quite funny, as are some of the other traditions up there.

LSSU is also host to the official unicorn hunters club. For information about member ship check out this….

Unicorn Hunters | Lake Superior State University

Anyone and everyone prepared to join the quest will be issued a unicorn license so long as potential members follow the below guidelines.

www.lssu.edu

The folks up there in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula gotta do something to pass the time in the harsh grip of winter. Hell, on the first day of spring, they used to have a snowman burning celebration. (They might still, I haven’t been back there for years. When I went there it was still a college, not a university.)

 

[Carlos Danger]

How about "surreal"?

I'd fucking pay to have that word banished for all time.

 

[glock24]

"xtreme tactical" . . .

 

[SBRSarge]

"xtreme tactical" . . .

Or just plain ‘tactical’!

 

[ForgeValley]

Or just plain ‘tactical’!

Tacticool.

 

[SBRSarge]

Tacticool.

Should be a hanging offense!

 

[PatMiles]

Literally

 

[BytorJr]

Seems like this school needs a lesson in grammar itself. There is no word irregardless. One should use either "regardless" or "irrespective" in a sentence. Hard to banish a word that isn't a word. GOAT is an acronym. C'mon...higher learning my arse.

 

[SBRSarge]

I had a sergeant who used ‘irregardless’ all the time. It was painful.

 

[Im2bent]

I had a sergeant who used ‘irregardless’ all the time. It was painful.

Maybe he knew it was the perfect trigger

 

[Srgt. Hulka]

The one word that makes me want to vomit is synergy. I want to throat-punch somebody every time I hear it.

 

[ChezJfrey]

I had a sergeant who used ‘irregardless’ all the time. It was painful.

Hehehe, yeah, that is one of those little things that makes me flinch a little every time I hear it. Guess I'm not the only one.

 

[SBRSarge]

Maybe he knew it was the perfect trigger

Could be, since I was always poking at him. (In a good natured way!)

We were a good match. He basically left me alone to do my work knowing that I would do it well. And I went and did a bang-up job that made him look good to the higher up brass.

I see him now and again. After 34+ years, he still uses irregardless. Probably intentionally around me!

 

[JoshPutman]

Didn't read the list, but I know a few I'm fucking tired of hearing.

Equity
Equality
Racist
Pronouns

There are a lot more I'm sure could be added.

 

[Sniff]

Seems like this school needs a lesson in grammar itself. There is no word irregardless. One should use either "regardless" or "irrespective" in a sentence. Hard to banish a word that isn't a word. GOAT is an acronym. C'mon...higher learning my arse.

Seems like you didn't bother the read the article. If you did, you would have seen that the reason they are banishing it is exactly because there is no such word.

From the article: “It makes my hair hurt.” As well it should—because it’s not a word.

 

[BytorJr]

Seems like you didn't bother the read the article. If you did, you would have seen that the reason they are banishing it is exactly because there is no such word.

From the article: “It makes my hair hurt.” As well it should—because it’s not a word.

Hi Jacinda, admittedly, I just read the list and not the article.

 

[acudaowner]

they should put together a comprehensive list of all the words that set them off so you could recite them everyday at the beginning of class just to watch the snowflakes melt call it helping them or call it what ever they would it should be done .

 

[The D]

Or just plain ‘tactical’!

Holy fuck, this!

 

[TXAZ]

“Fuck them and the horse they rode in on”.

 

[The D]

Can I still tell people to eat a dick?

 

[LilGucci]

language is reality, and if you want to recreate the world into something different, you have to change the language that we understand the world through.

 

[Maser]

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

Hmmm, seems like the world superior in their name has inflated their ego.
Irregardless of the list. I'll continue with my first amendment right to speak how I want.


@SBRSarge . Couldn't help myself

 

[Fig]

When I was in high school people started mispronouncing “fort”, as in a strength, with “forte”, which is an Italian, musical term for louder, appearently because they thought it made their dumbasses sound smarter. I corrected all the “smart” people for years and sent their stupid asses to the dictionary. In about 2000 the dictionary was amended to this pronunciation as an alternative, and now it is fully changed. A lie repeated often enough becomes truth, and idiots prevail at least as much as they loose. Our universities are a pale shadow of what they once were. Real education is nearly dead.

 

[tomcatmv]

Can I still tell people to eat a dick?

NO! The proper phrasing is "go consume a satchel of Richards"

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Didn't read the list, but I know a few I'm fucking tired of hearing.

Equity
Equality
Racist
Pronouns

There are a lot more I'm sure could be added.

Gaslighting…

 

[jb0311]

Seems like this school needs a lesson in grammar itself. There is no word irregardless. One should use either "regardless" or "irrespective" in a sentence. Hard to banish a word that isn't a word. GOAT is an acronym. C'mon...higher learning my arse.

You didn’t actually read the article, did you?

 

[jb0311]

It isn’t about political correctness or social outrage or dickheads with hurt feelings.

It is a decades-old tradition where they lampoon over-used and silly words and phrases that have achieved un-deserved popularity.

Take to for what it is and how it is meant. It is actually quite funny, as are some of the other traditions up there.

LSSU is also host to the official unicorn hunters club. For information about member ship check out this….

Unicorn Hunters | Lake Superior State University

Anyone and everyone prepared to join the quest will be issued a unicorn license so long as potential members follow the below guidelines.

www.lssu.edu

The folks up there in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula gotta do something to pass the time in the harsh grip of winter. Hell, on the first day of spring, they used to have a snowman burning celebration. (They might still, I haven’t been back there for years. When I went there it was still a college, not a university.)

I don’t think any of them actually read the article, including the OP. This isn’t the SJW, over-offended event that SH desperately wants it to be lol.

 

[Maser]

I don’t think any of them actually read the article, including the OP. This isn’t the SJW, over-offended event that SH desperately wants it to be lol.

I thought it was gonna be the Stanford thing when I clicked this thread.

 

[The D]

NO! The proper phrasing is "go consume a satchel of Richards"

If I can’t tell people to eat a dick using the proper vernacular, then fuck off

 

[Threadcutter308]

The one word that makes me want to vomit is synergy. I want to throat-punch somebody every time I hear it.

"Quintessential"........

 

[W54/XM-388]

NO! The proper phrasing is "go consume a satchel of Richards"

Don't type those kinds of things into a fetish porn site or you might get back a bunch of pictures you weren't expecting and may not exactly like either...

 

[XikoPlavi]

Didn't read the list, but I know a few I'm fucking tired of hearing.

Equity
Equality
Racist
Pronouns

There are a lot more I'm sure could be added.

Dont forget systemic & reimagine

 

[tomcatmv]

Back in the 90's or so, I got so sick of "paradigm shift".

 

[EddieNFL]

The one word that makes me want to vomit is synergy. I want to throat-punch somebody every time I hear it.

Perhaps you just don't understand the contextual dynamics of the word.

At least we still have FAFO and FOAD.

 

[hlee]

I've read that educational institutions ban books, but banning words is something new.
What will we have banned next?

Necro-posters, one would hope…

 

[Redmanss]

I've read that educational institutions ban books, but banning words is something new.
What will we have banned next?

Next we castrate and hot knife skin the spammers.

 

[Maggot]

Apparently these dickheads come out with a new list of words they want banished every year, because it hurts their feelings. It is what it is

Banished Words | Lake Superior State University 2024

The wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University have released LSSU's newest annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.

www.lssu.edu

I may burn for this but what the hell (pun ntended)