[Lexicog] news: "Useless" words of 2007

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Here's another journalist's report on that list.

CHICAGO - A "surge" of overused words and phrases formed a "perfect storm" 
of "post-9/11" cliches in 2007, according to a U.S. university's annual 
list of words and phrases that deserve to be banned.
...
"Webinar" made the list as a tiresome non-word combining Web and seminar 
that a contributor said "belongs in the same school of non-thought that 
brought us e-anything and i-anything."
Similarly, the list-makers complained about the absurd comparisons 
commonly phrased "x is the new y," as in "(age) 70 is the new 50" or 
"chocolate is the new sex." "Fallacy is the new truth," commented one 
contributor.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22451155/


Steve White, International Computer Support - JAARS
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