Banned Words List Carries Its First Emoticon 333
DynaSoar writes "Lake Superior State University in Michigan's Upper Peninsula ('The land of four seasons: June, July, August and Winter') has just published its 34th annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. Besides such unsurprising inclusions such as 'green' corporations being 'game changing' due to concern with their 'carbon foot print,' this year's list contains an emoticon for the first time — not a smiley face or variant, but the 'heart' symbol made from the characters 'less than' and 'three.' It's perhaps a sign of the evolution of language, or at least of this volunteer linguistic watchdog group, that a symbol compounded of two characters, neither of them a letter, is considered not only a word, but a particularly egregious one."
Link to the list (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Language evolves - deal with it (Score:2, Informative)
Re:a flashback to the 90's (Score:4, Informative)
Actually, if you are referring to the bibles that the Gideon society leaves in hotel rooms, that is in modern English. You can tell it is in modern English because, as a native English speaker, you have little difficulty reading it. Also, "wife" is not spelled "wyf," as it would be in middle English, and it does not read like German or contain any "ash" (æ) characters, at it would if it were actually old English.
Re:Link to the list (Score:2, Informative)
slashdotted. here's the text:
Re:Pity they didn't include "loosers" (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Pity they didn't include "loosers" (Score:3, Informative)
Re:wtf (Score:3, Informative)
mine:
( O Y O )
Re:A cause for celebration (Score:3, Informative)
=o=
That's supposed to represent the goatse guy.
Re:A cause for celebration (Score:3, Informative)