Her words are witchcraft and heresy. The very tools of the Devil!
Although by no means exact, rough web based estimates of the number of words in the English language put the total at somewhere between 750,000 and 1 million. By any civilized standard this is too many! A million words! That has the sulfuric stench of the devil. Here at super genius we’d wager that at least 40% of that is pure waste, and we’d like to do our part to cut that waste. On the heels of the infamous memo put out by Tribune CEO Randy Michaels (a memo we support by the way); we’ve decided to begin publishing our own list of words we’re banning in 2010 and invite crowdsourced (uh oh! spoiler alert on that one!) additions. Now, a millions words is a lot for us to go through so as THE BANNENING continues and we add new words we’ll publish them in our twitter feed (there’s another one!) under #dumbwords. The real goal here, is to avoid using words that make you sound like a jargon drunk simpleton. By not using these words you enhance your reputation as a human being. And so:
BRAND PROMISE (yes we know, two words, but it’s combination that kills)
CROWDSOURCE (CROWDSOURCED)
TWEET
THE “CLOUD”
VAMPIRE
ALCOPOP (this was actually on the 2007 list but we didn’t publish that year)
BLOG (the term micro-blog has been added to our 2011 watchlist)
SOCCER
AKIMBO
Additional words will be published via the 140 character service known as Twitter under the hash #dumbwords. If you have words to add to the list please do the same. Cheers!
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