I don’t wish to start out the New Year by appearing crabby, so I’ll just pass without much remark on the report of Lake Superior State University’s list of words to be banished from the lexicon for 2012.
Just a couple of thoughts: how can they limit it to ten? I’d have gone for 100.
And I’d include “transparency/transparent”—as in “the app should be transparent to the user” or (even worse) “transparency in [government] or [management]”. In the latter case “transparent” means “so obfuscated that the [taxpayers] or [serfs] won’t be able to figure out what we’re doing.”
Off with their heads!
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