Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., has released its annual list of words to ban and the acronym for 'Greatest of all Time' takes first prize
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — Lake Superior State University has released its list of banned words for 2023 and they kid you not, "GOAT" tops "inflection point," "quiet quitting," and "gaslighting" as the greatest of all-time words and terms that Lake State has banished for the coming year.
"Stop resorting to imprecise, trite, and meaningless words and terms of seeming convenience! You’re taking the lazy way out and only confusing matters by over-relying on inexact, stale, and inane communication!" implores Lake State. Topping the list of the best of the worst is "GOAT," an acronym for Greatest of All Time. The many nominators didn’t have to be physicists or grammarians to determine this wannabe superlative's literal impossibility and technical vagueness. Yet, it’s bestowed on everyone from Olympic gold medallists to Jeopardy! champions, as one muckraker playfully deplored.
Over the decades, Lake State has received tens of thousands of nominations for the list, which now totals more than 1,000 entries. Examples of the winners to make the yearly compilation: “detente,” “surely,” “classic,” “bromance,” and “COVID-19,” plus “wrap my head around,” “user friendly,” “at this point in time,” “not so much,” and “viable alternative.”
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