As 2020 comes to an end, a university wants to prevent multiple words and phrases from being brought into the new year.
On Thursday, Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie Marie, Michigan, released its annual “Banned Word List”, which includes 10 words it wants banned in 2021 for “overuse, improper or useless”, said the university in your ad.
However, many of the words can be difficult to ban.
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More than 1,450 words and phrases have been named worldwide. Of these, more than 250 were related to the coronavirus.
So when the university decided to create its list of banned words, it put COVID-19 itself at the top of the list, with similar terms including COVID, coronavirus and Rona.
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In fact, most of the phrases on the final list are related to the pandemic, including “social detachment”, “we are all in this together”, “very cautiously”, “in these uncertain times”, “pivot” and “unprecedented” – which it had already been banned by the LSSU in 2002.
Lake Superior State University released its annual “Banned Word List”, which included seven phrases related to the coronavirus pandemic. (iStock)
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The university also wanted to ban the term “Karen”, which “started out as an anti-racist criticism of the behavior of white women in response to blacks and browns”, but has now been transformed into “a misogynist term to criticize the perceived overly emotional behavior of women. women, “said the ad.
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LSSU also banned “sus”, short for “suspect” and commonly used in the videogame “Among us” and the phrase “I know, right?” because it is “reiterating something already supported”.
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“It shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that this year’s list was dominated by words and terms related to COVID-19,” members of the Banned Word List committee said in a joint statement. “The LSSU Banned Word List has reflected signs of the times since it debuted in the mid-1970s, and this year’s zeitgeist is: We are all in this together by banning expressions like ‘We are all in this together’.”
“To be sure, COVID-19 is unprecedented in causing damage and destroying lives,” said the members. “But it’s also over-reliance on ‘unprecedented’ to frame things, so you have to go, too.”
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LSSU has been launching an annual “Banned Word List” since 1976 as a way to “defend, protect and support excellence in language, encouraging the avoidance of words and terms that are overloaded, redundant, oxymoronic, clichés, illogical, meaningless – and others ineffective, disconcerting or irritating, “said the ad.