Back by popular demand, and frankly necessity, is the banned word list. This is an evolving list of words that are used either too often or in the wrong context by the dope at work or the show-off in one of your classes. Here are the entries for today:
1." Perhaps" -- Example: "Perhaps Austen was trying to critique the upper-class by making her heroine a member of the working class." "Perhaps Nabokov was just showing off his liguistic skills."
2. "Thusly" I got this word second hand, but from a reliable source. I cannot imagine the context in which this clown used the word "thusly."
You are encouraged to add words to the list. You don't have to include examples; sometimes just the word is enough to make you roll your eyes.
7 comments:
Perchance. There is a person who goes to AASU that uses this word. One of the women I work with has the e-mails to prove it. Come on! Who uses "perchance" in a sentence?
Organalize, plastify, and rectalize. As I have mentioned befeore, my boss is a complete MORON who believes he is bilingual and has the NERVE to criticize other people's English....
oooooooh, and that perhaps thing.. UGH, I remember that girl who always pretend she was British and said "Puuuuuuuuuuuuuurapzzzzzzzzzzzz" like every other word. I broke a pencil once out of pure contempt!
I'm glad to see it lives on. I hope you already included the originals from Lit Theory. I can't remember what it was, but I think it started with a "JUXTAPOSITION" or any variation on that word! I know you remember girls.
Juxtaposition is the only one I can remember right now, but I bet Brandi knows it. The British girl drove everyone mad. Thank God she is gone! Were you in the class where she informed us all that she was a virgin? TMI is also a problem.
YESSSSS!!! I think Brandi was in there too! Ohmygod! That was the craziest thing she ever said... I can't believe I forgot about that! I think it was when we were reading Lady Chatterly´s Lover.. What was that really woman's name who was just as annoying and dumb, who told us that her kid ate her dog's poop? I think there should be a screening process for the Lit. Department.
Tom Cruise calling Matt from the Today show "Glib" b/c Matt doesn't realize that the cure for everything is vitamins, scientology, and working out.
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