A new year and words you can't use
banished words.
Saturday, January 1, 2011 by Uvah | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
An interesting beginning to the new year. Words like epic ... fail and 'refudiate' ... he he ... are no longer allowed.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/01/01/Banished-words-Refudiate-viral/UPI-27641293870600/
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Reply #2 Saturday, January 1, 2011 11:59 AM
I know that but they don't. The one exception is 'refudiate'. Sarah Palin coined it. It should have been repudiate.
Reply #3 Saturday, January 1, 2011 12:13 PM
Reply #4 Saturday, January 1, 2011 12:37 PM
Hmmm, the only words that you probably shouldn't use are the ones that you don't know the meaning of. 
Don't want to confuse the person that you are having a disussion with now do you? 
Reply #5 Saturday, January 1, 2011 1:45 PM
My wife has told me that "I'm watching MMA tonight" are words that I won't be needing this year.
Reply #6 Saturday, January 1, 2011 2:41 PM
Don't want to confuse the person that you are having a disussion with now do you?
YEA shouldn't use words you have to look up to know what they mean like Jafo did
The Penultimate New Master for 2010 - theAVMAN
Could be i'm just not to smart.
Reply #8 Saturday, January 1, 2011 5:36 PM
Nah....no way it could be that......
Reply #9 Saturday, January 1, 2011 7:58 PM
.................................. Okay.
Reply #10 Sunday, January 2, 2011 4:41 AM
Epic fail...
New word for 2011: Palinism
Reply #12 Sunday, January 2, 2011 11:14 AM
New approved psychological disorder for 2011: Palinistic Perceptions
Reply #13 Sunday, January 2, 2011 6:45 PM
New approved psychological disorder #2 for 2011: Palinslexia. (Brain/mouth disconnect).
Reply #14 Sunday, January 2, 2011 7:38 PM
When she looks in the mirror, does she Palincomparison? 
We all should have her moxie, folks. She's got about $25 million bucks. She's laughing all the way to the bank.
How about you?
Reply #15 Sunday, January 2, 2011 8:01 PM
good one...
I really like Michael Palin.... wonder how he feels about sharing the name.... 
Reply #16 Sunday, January 2, 2011 8:12 PM
Yep, she keeps babbling and people keep feeding her cash. It is pretty amazing. Reality tv merges into politics.
Reply #17 Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:13 PM
How about you?
Of course! If you saw my bank account you'd be laughing too! 
Reply #19 Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:51 PM
I never even heard of "refudiate" before. "Man Up"? Really? 
Whatever happened to "macho"? (I think this was banned some time ago as well.) And "epic" really has become cliché as well. It's abused by today's youth. (I'm probably stating the obvious here. hehe.) BFF? As far as i'm concerned it's just an abbriveation, not a word. As I recall, all English words have to have at least one vowel (or a "Y") in order to be considered a word. BFF is certainly NOT a word.
How can a video be "viral"? Most videos doesn't contain viruses. Well, I guess it could be planted with malware.
I can agree that some words like "fail" are here to stay. They'll never disappear from our language, EVER! It's just that our language changes with the times. Can we imagine people still saying "totally tubular" or "gnarly" these days? Probably not. 20 years from now, people will probably have no idea who the "mama grizzlies" were or what they stood for.
This list is an epic fail (LOL). (I know that LOL isn't a word but hey, neither is BFF. 
)
Reply #20 Sunday, January 2, 2011 10:02 PM
Truer words have yet to be spoken. In Sarah Palin's case ...... meh.
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Reply #1 Saturday, January 1, 2011 11:43 AM
It is silly because these are real words. They used to have different meanings way back when, that is all.