Rough Draft
Top 10 words that need to be comfortably stored in an attic for a few years:
❶ epic (via rachelzehava)
❷ creep + derivatives (via misuse)
❸ skeen (via worthlessness)
❹ bleh (via take-some-interest-or-say-something-interesting)
❺ fail (via severe overuse)
❻ legit (via culture of abbreviations)
❼ meh (via #4)
❽ rape(via disregard for its connotations)
❾ absurd (via annoyingly-mispronounced)
❿ obviously (via slight overuse)
Note: this blog refuses to acknowledge Lake Superior’s Banished Words List as a “relevant entity.” It also considers Lake Superior president Dr. Tony McLain a “pedantic asshole.”
Generally Annoyed
Words that I want to kill:
- creep
- creepy
- creeper
- creeping
The ubiquity of creep and its derivates is surely part of our culture of fear. Everyone’s a creep; everyone’s a stalker. Love letters are creepy; looking at someone for more than three seconds is creepy; liking someone’s goddamn Facebook status is creepy. We’re a nation of background checks, y’all. It’s depressing. I might talk more about it tomorrow.
(For the record: “creeper status” is less pleasing to the ear than “epic fail” … somehow.)
