WOTY Nomination for Most Unnecessary

[Grant Barrett]

My nomination for the most unnecessary word of the year: "killographic."

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-12-09-killing-word_x.htm

A public interest group had a holiday warning and a new word Monday for
parents of video game users: Beware of "killographic," defined as the
"graphic depiction of brutal violence."

The National Institute on Media and the Family, an independent,
nonprofit group, said "killographic" scenes are featured in a number of
video games within reach of children. [...]

"If pornographic is the 'graphic depiction of sex,' then killographic
should enter our vocabulary to describe the 'graphic depiction of
brutal violence,"' David Walsh, the institute's president, told a
Capitol Hill news conference.

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Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org