i think we all owe Lake Superior State University a big "thank you" for posting its annual banned words list. among the ones the provoke my hearty "AMEN!" are A) combined celebrity names ("bennifer," et al), B) chipotle--sorry, but it's a noun, not an adjective that can describe every food that needs to not taste gross all on its own, and C) the phrase "we're pregnant." that one is especially annoying to me. why do men feel the need to appropriate a world of pain owned by women? and why would women want to share the hard-earned "glow" and the pawing that they get from some irresistable magnetism that makes rude strangers want to touch their mid-section? maybe men feel left out of the "awww, beautiful mother" thing and the "no experience like the birth of your child" stuff, blah blah blah, puke puke puke. now it may seem like i'm cynical or whatever, and, believe it or not, i do hope for children of my own someday. but no matter how earth-shattering something is, and perhaps precisely because it is so momentus, it shouldn't be trivialized by such a non-sensical utterance just for the sake of showing that it's shared.
i'd love to hear any other words/phrases that need to be kicked out of our daily lexicon. are there any takers?
i'd love to hear any other words/phrases that need to be kicked out of our daily lexicon. are there any takers?
3 comments:
I understand the technical problem of the phrase "we're pregnant," but it beats a) the phrase "my wife is pregnant with what will be our child" or b) the phrase "my wife is pregnant" with the potential implication that the wife has been ... less than faithful?
That said, we should also not banned combined celebrity names. Who could take umbrage at "Filliam H. Muffman?"
LOL!
What's wrong with Chipotle? Of course, I eat at Chipotle so much that I don't think of it as the god of food that I once did.
Mc-Anything.
Noo-cue-lar; It's nuclear dammit!
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