Here's one university's take on words/phrases from the past year that should be banned:

BLUE STATES/RED STATES – Who’s who, anyway? “I remember when I was a kid and Georgia was purple,” says Peter Pietrangelo, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. “A good map has more than two colors.”

FLIP FLOP/FLIP FLOPPER/FLIP FLOPPING – They belong at the beach, not in a political dialogue. “Republicans used it; Democrats used it back. Flip-flop back and forth it goes.”

POCKETS OF RESISTANCE – “Are we talking about someone not buying a round of drinks or people shooting at each other?” “Sounds like someone having trouble pulling their hands out of their pants pockets.”

ENEMY COMBATANT – “Makes no sense. Do we have friendly combatants? Neutral combatants? Or how about enemy bystanders? If they are your enemy, just say so.”

CARBS – low carbs, high carbs, no carbs, carb-friendly… Meant ‘carburetor’ in a previous life. Needs to be purged from our system.
“You’re not fat because you eat bread; you’re fat because you eat too much!”
“What’s the point of low-carb beer? A person that concerned about ‘carbs’ shouldn’t even be drinking beer.”

YOU’RE FIRED! – “…and the little hand movement, too!”

‘IZZLE’ – SPEAK – By far, the abomination that received the most nominations. Some sort of ‘Rap-Latin’ suffix, as in fa’shizzle, which means ‘for sure.’ “It was clever for about five minutes, or should I say five ‘minizzles?’”

WARDROBE MALFUNCTION – “Janet Jackson’s bodice did not ‘malfunction.’” “Justin Timberlake pulled too much and too far and I could hear the cogs turning in his publicist’s head trying to come up with that excuse!”
“It wasn’t the wardrobe’s fault!” “Sure to be this generation’s Watergate, misapplied to all situations both imaginable and not so.”

BLOG – and its variations, including blogger, blogged, blogging, blogosphere. Many who nominated it were unsure of the meaning. Sounds like something your mother would slap you for saying. “Sounds like a Viking’s drink that’s better than grog, or a technique to kill a frog.”

BODY WASH – “Also known as ‘soap.’”

Source: LSSU

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