Friday, December 28, 2012

Words

Every year, at the end of the year, there are always lists. I haven't seen a list of lists yet, but I'm sure someone has one.

Time has a list. It's about words:
If we could put a piece of culture in a steel vault and sink it into the blackest depths of the deepest ocean? In a special editon of Wednesday Words, TIME asks you to give it a try, by voting on which word or phrase people need to delete from their vocabulary in 2013.
What words does Time suggest?
  • 47%
  • 99%
  • 110%
  • adorkable
  • amazeballs
  • artisanal
  • cray
  • fiscal cliff
  • gangnam style
  • jelly
  • literally
  • meh
  • mommy porn
  • teehee
  • totes
  • YOLO
  • zombie apocalypse
Now, I could certainly do without lots of these words. In fact, I've managed to not utter nearly half of them at all, and of the others that I have said, most were my quoting others, often to make fun of them.

Except "jelly." Of course, I used it, not to mean "jealous" but to mean the stuff that goes in a sandwich next to the peanut butter. And "cray?" It was capitalized when I used it; I was talking about the supercomputer.

While some of these words are indeed words we do not need to hear again, ever, I'm thinking there are some other words we could do without. "Obama" tops the list. "Harry Reid" is another, although I realize that's two words. But then, so is "zombie apocalypse," but there I go repeating myself.

What words would you like to never hear again?

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