Jan 30 2009
Campaign
Words- they can be complicated, hurting, humorous, sad, stupid and the list goes on. We need to be careful of what we said, as once said, we can’t really take our words back.
I’ll start my Save Trees & Bandwidth campaign with a list of words we basically don’t need in the English language: mishap, discourteous, sophisticated, suburban, barbarism, (And pretty much every Word of the Day, like obloquy, emolument, tmesis, indomitable, and mellifluous.)
Come on, those are either ambiguous, underused, hard-to-spell, or plain annoying. Let’s not even get me started with overused (dead) words.
Let’s put all of them to the fiunary (which, according to “The Meaning of Liff” by Douglas Adams, is the word for “The safe place you put something and then forget where it was”).
