[Lexicog] news: "Useless" words of 2007

[Fritz Goerling]

Steve,

 

I doubt that you, as a Californian, are a soccer fan. But it gets on my
nerves to read "Messi is the new Maradona." (The Argentinian Messi is FC
Barcelona's new superstar on an already star-studded team).

 

Happy New Year,

 

Fritz


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
Language_Support_JAARS at sil.org
704 843-6337, 1-800-215-7813

 

 

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