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If you recently tweeted about how you were chillaxin for the holiday,take note: Fifteen particularly mis-used words and phrases have been declared ready to be unfriended by a US universitys annual list of terms that deserve to be banned.
After thousands of nominations of words and phrases used in marketing,media,technology and elsewhere,wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University issued their 35th annual list of words that they believe should be banned.
Tops on the Michigan universitys list of useless phrases was shovel-ready. The term refers to infrastructure projects that are ready to break ground and was popularly used to describe road,bridge and other construction projects fueled by stimulus funds from the Obama administration.
Speaking of stimulus,that word which was applied to government spending aimed at boosting the economy made the over-used category as well,along with an odd assortment of Obama-related constructions such as Obamacare and Obamanomics. We say Obamanough already, the LSSU committee said.
Also ripe for exile is sexting, shorthand for sexy text messaging,a habit that has caused trouble this year for public figures from politicians to star athletes.
Similarly,list makers showed distaste for tweeting,retweeting and tweetaholics,lingo made popular by users of the popular Twitter website. And dont even get them started on the use of friend as a verb,as in: He made me mad so I unfriended him on Facebook.
Also making the list was chillaxin the combination of chillin and relaxin.
