LSSU Word Banishment

[Baker, John]

        The strategy doesn't seem to be very effective, if they had to outlaw live audience three times.  Could it be that that's because live audience is a useful phrase after all, distinguishing a live audience from a televised audience?  Forced relaxation and minor emergency clinic are also useful terms, and I rather like my bad.

        In other words, I am not entirely sympathetic with the LSSU's list.  It may be an effective public relations strategy for them, though.

John Baker


-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Sheidlower [mailto:jester at PANIX.COM]
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Subject: LSSU Word Banishment


Forwarded from John Shibley of LSSU.

----- Forwarded message from John Shibley <jshibley at lssu.edu> -----

        Words and phrases outlawed in previous years include: My
Bad  (`98), Forced Relaxation  (`89), Free Gift  (`88), Live
Audience  (`83, `87, `90), and Minor Emergency Clinic  (86 and 90). Last
year's list featured "peel-and-eat shrimp," the noun-modifier "extreme,"
and the elusive redundancy "undisclosed, secret location."