Rising Hegemon
It's time to submit final entries, debate the existing entries, and to cull the 2011 list. New items in bold. Please add your suggestions in comments.
Because it's never too early to put the world on notice...
- Frenemies
- Social Media
- Sexting
- Obamabot
- How's that workin' out for ya?
- Establishment
- Mainstream
- Lamestream
- Emboldened
- Litmus Test
- Blowout preventer
- Top Kill
- Real Housewives of ___________
- Gaga
- Junk Shot
- Enthusiasm Gap
- Mixologist/Mixology
- Folks (when uttered by any politician)
- Elites
- Hysterical
- Breathless
- Fee Fees
- Structural Unemployment
- Epistemic Closure
- Hippie Punching
- Bipartisan (itchy brother, from comments) "Bipartisan" made the 2009 List, but clearly, the banning did not take; so it needs to be banned again.
- The American People (when uttered by any politician) (Jill from comments) (Remember Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel lecture: "Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words 'the American people' provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don't need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it's very comfortable.")
- Homeland (Major Woody from comments)
25 comments:
Compromise.
Can we make the 25 Banned Words of 2011 and just have a party to celebrate them?
my candidates:
'don't touch my junk'
sarah palin
shovel ready
Just sayin'.
Umm, conflicted about "hippie punching."
It's still going on, even though the phrase may be getting tiresome.
What new phrase replaces it?
Shared ________ (pain, commitment, etc)
Deficit hawks.
7-dimensional chess
"My son Trig."
Hopey Changey
uncertainty.
and by giving returds what they want, 2012 is looking very gppd.
Bipartisan
pwnd
ok, where's spellcheck?
you think the republikkklans were gonna be REASONABLE???
Obama.
Refudiate! Also, any politician (especially Boehner)referencing The American People.
No particular word, but anything Mitch McConnell or Jon Kyl say. They both come across as rank assholes to almost anyone...except your Washington press corpse [sic].
"Growing a (business)."
It's unnatural to "grow" a bizness. You can grow a beard, your tools can "grow" legs, but the thought of "growing a business" repels me. I've been in business forty plus years, and have no idea what idiot came up with that metaphor of growing.
Some republican who never worked very hard to get a business going, I reckon. Like sunlight and a little water and hoeing, and horsehit terms like "growing" will make a bidness grow. Work, perseverance, more work, patience, more work.... Vox
It's still fairly new but I assume we'll be tired of it soon enough, if not by the end of this year:
Hacktivist.
I have to go with "American people" Thats like saying i have gobs and gobs of stuff.
The professional left?
Good one Anonymous! Here's one I really, REALLY hate, which may have already been banned:
Homeland
As in "Homeland Security" or "Protecting the Homeland", a phrase that seems to have come into common usage in the news.
OK all. Find all the useless uses of P in the fucking language. Start with nuematic. Man there is a sea of pee in me about P. Back then they must have had better drugs.
I second "homeland"... it's been an oversight since the 2002 list! It's got such creepy, nationalistic overtones-- like Vaterland.
Bartkid sez,
Our North Korean Allies.
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