http://www.lssu.edu/banished/

So, if the wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University get their way, this is the last time a story lead like this will ever make it into print or broadcast.

Answering a question by beginning with the word “so” is just one of a dozen forms of wordplay that made it onto LSSU’s 41st annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. The tradition created by the late W. T. Rabe, former public relations director at Lake Superior State University, is now in its fifth decade. Compilers hope this year’s list will be so popular that it will break the Internet.

“Overused words and phrases are ‘problematic’ for thousands of Queen’s English ‘stakeholders,’” said an LSSU spokesperson while ‘vaping’ an e-cigarette during a ‘presser.’ “Once something is banished, there’s no ‘walking it back;’ that’s our ‘secret sauce,’ and there’s no ‘price point’ for that.”

More at link

I’ve been all over the new phenomenon of answering a question with “so”
It started about 18 months ago and came out of universities and then went viral on the radio and TV.
It’s an insidious many headed hydra that wont be controlled until someone detonates themselves in an ABC big ideas studio.

so shall you sow

so shall you reap

Overused words and phrases are ‘problematic’ for thousands of Queen’s English ‘stakeholders,’” said an LSSU spokesperson while ‘vaping’ an e-cigarette during a ‘presser.’ “Once something is banished, there’s no ‘walking it back;’ that’s our ‘secret sauce,’ and there’s no ‘price point’ for that.”

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I heard some wanker the other day refer to “onboarding” some material.

My feelings about the use of the word so are so-so.

So where did so-so originate?

The Rev Dodgson said:

So where did so-so originate?

Hawaii

So these academics think they can decimate the dictionary?

The Rev Dodgson said:

My feelings about the use of the word so are so-so.

Therefore you are of two minds?

I find it somewhat amusing that an American university is making prescriptive comments about “the Queen’s English.”

btm said:

I find it somewhat amusing that an American university is making prescriptive comments about “the Queen’s English.”

Yes. Good one!

btm said:

I find it somewhat amusing that an American university is making prescriptive comments about “the Queen’s English.”

Heh. When our browsers which are set to UK or Australian English still cannot work out what English actually is.

so, entertain me

transition said:

so, entertain me

Hence, dropping my drawers would suffice.

roughbarked said:

transition said:

so, entertain me

Hence, dropping my drawers would suffice.

I was getting at the lead in to conversations starting with so is an outcome of the expectation to be entertained, the world being so full of messages all’n every’s about entertainment. Big industry’n all.

well’ even as some sort of joiner

transition said:

so, entertain me

Sometimes when talking about a 3rd party, usually not present you may hear “Fred Smith is a nasty So and So”

transition said:

well’ even as some sort of joiner

Why do we need the word “Problematic”?

So, something called a Kardashian has dropped their drawers and broken the internet…

And now for something completely the same, a woman with three buttocks!

Ian said:

So, something called a Kardashian has dropped their drawers and broken the internet…

And now for something completely the same, a woman with three buttocks!

Does she have two vaginas to complete the design?

> http://www.lssu.edu/banished/

Absolute rubbish. None of those are either problematic or overused, except for “stakeholder”, which always gives the impression of someone about to impale me on a wooden stake.

If you want to take aim at anything, take aim at overused and problematic “Green”, “my bad”, “sustainable”, “terrorist”, etc.

As has been pointed out, the increase of use of the word “sustainable” is not sustainable.

bob(from black rock) said:

Ian said:

So, something called a Kardashian has dropped their drawers and broken the internet…

And now for something completely the same, a woman with three buttocks!

Does she have two vaginas to complete the design?

there are woman with two vaginas

but they are not Kardashians

CrazyNeutrino said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Ian said:

So, something called a Kardashian has dropped their drawers and broken the internet…

And now for something completely the same, a woman with three buttocks!

Does she have two vaginas to complete the design?

there are woman with two vaginas

but they are not Kardashians

and luckily are us there are no words to describe that

Those expressions may well be overused in the USA, but some of them are not familiar to me.

Surprised they included “vape” which is just as legitimate a verb as “smoke”.

CrazyNeutrino said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Does she have two vaginas to complete the design?

there are woman with two vaginas

but they are not Kardashians

and luckily are us there are no words to describe that

my grammar is terrible, sorry

What objection to people have about “problematic”? It has been a well-established word for over 400 years.

dv said:

What objection to people have about “problematic”? It has been a well-established word for over 400 years.

Overuse, I suppose. Instead of describing something as “problematic” people could just tell us what the problems are.

dv said:

What objection to people have about “problematic”? It has been a well-established word for over 400 years.

its a problem

its problematic

is a a syllable thing

both seem to be about the same

CrazyNeutrino said:

dv said:

What objection to people have about “problematic”? It has been a well-established word for over 400 years.

its a problem

its problematic

is a a syllable thing

both seem to be about the same

is it a syllable thing

Bubblecar said:

Surprised they included “vape” which is just as legitimate a verb as “smoke”.

Quite. What verb do they recommend?

Now went around the commercial stations then too that first three letters of alphabet abbreviated one, like a fucken contagion at some time, all converging during the great transformation which is still going on.

It’s to get and keep attention, on the stories now, increase the authority, the importance, the relevance, a capture word, but too has some overlap with so.

The device has method in the delivery, and top of the list is your entertainment.

So, now, you’re hungry.

CrazyNeutrino said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

dv said:

What objection to people have about “problematic”? It has been a well-established word for over 400 years.

its a problem

its problematic

is a a syllable thing

both seem to be about the same

is it a syllable thing

Is “problematic” a problem with automatic transmission?
Just a fort.

bob(from black rock) said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

its a problem

its problematic

is a a syllable thing

both seem to be about the same

is it a syllable thing

Is “problematic” a problem with automatic transmission?
Just a fort.

Well this car is automatic, it’s systematic, it’s hydromatic, it’s problematic…
Why it’s greased lightnin’!