LinkyCHICAGO, Dec 31 (Reuters Life!) - It would be "awesome" if "TomKat" and other combined nicknames for celebrity couples "went missing" in the New Year, a Michigan university said on Sunday in its annual list of cliches deserving banishment.
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Lake Superior State University's 32nd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness featured such linguistic gems as "Gitmo" for the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; euphemisms such as "undocumented alien;" and such Internet-inflected synonyms as "pwn," as in the phrase "I pwn (own) you."
The Sault St. Marie, Michigan, university's public relations staff culled its list of 16 cliches from 4,500 submissions, many of which demanded that something be done to stop the onslaught of the word "awesome."
"Overused and meaningless," complained contributor Robert Bron, writing to the list-makers from Pattaya, Thailand. "'My mother was hit by a car.' Awesome. 'I just got my college degree.' Awesome."
So this can't be done anymore.Larry Laffer wrote:Don't worry, V.'s not good with games... but this brings back the topic of hamachi, and us trying to see who pwns at old games
What are we going to do without the pwnage?
Honestly who the hell would reply to someone saying their mother had been hit by a car with 'awesome'? That's just messed, anyone who thinks that I hope they fall over breaking both their arms and legs, guess who now needs their mother to feed, bath and dress them, but oh no, that’s right, she got hit by a car, too bad.
