Trendy Words I Don't Like: A Series
Stakeholder.
Outlier.
Tweet (and I’m not thrilled with Twitter).
Bloviate.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
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9 comments:
I kinda like outliers. It sounds like Outlander. A lone Viking. Or something.
Yeah, something. I'd never heard the word before a month or two ago when it started popping up on cable news. Have you noticed those folks catch on to a word and use it when another word would do just as well?
I thought Vikings had to come in pairs. One to work the tiller and the the other to row (or is it work the sail?).
The two words I'm most sick of are "stimulus" and "pork."
"Pork" in particular is just a taunt now. It's lost all meaning.
"outlier" ... [from a Psych major] = a statistics term
(*shudder*)
they ALWAYS screw up your data!
I love omniumgatherum & zaftig.
~Mary
I kind of like "bloviate."
But, then, I would....
I am tired of hearing stimulus and I am tired of hearing how everything is getting a "reform"
Oh and did you see the IKEA (in reference to the furnature you were blogging about before) guy who is raking in the billions? Here is a link to that article
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Banking/Advice/who-are-the-worlds-richest-now.aspx?GT1=33001
certain words hit the lexicon from nowhere becaseu certain people in the public eye use them.
example: gravitas
I do like "porkulus"
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