What people do in parties is always a mystery: you have to be there to understand why or how did they came out with X or Y. Well, something similar happened 30 years ago at LSSU.
Let's see how are they doing this year. It's a great job and, for the Linguistics, says a lot about the ways languages move.
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This "breaking news" just in: Lake Superior State University releases its 31st annual List of Words and Phrases Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness.
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php
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~ Edgar Barrera
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1 comment:
I guess you missed the point. The guys at LSSU are not prohibiting words. The lists they are making is just a way to point out the silly expressions we're using.
There's a big difference between those who wants to forbin F words (or whatever) for "moral" reasons or just for PC, and people who love to work and deal with languages.
I can't imagine a language that doesn't changes, that doesn't evolves in time... that's part of the human nature; expressions we're using today are completely differents to those used 3 centuries ago.
Don't worry about the F word, I don't think we'll stop using it.
Have fun!
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