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Spare me the mindless rantings of the LSSU nattering nabobs. I'll mention just a few of their idiocies:
1. Authored. What are we supposed to say, authed?
2. Webinar. Geesh! Perfectly good portmanteau word.
3. Waterboarding. If you don't like the thing, ban the thing. Until then, leave the word alone.
4. Decimate. Excuse me. Are you going to complain about people being called candidates if they're not wearing all white?
5. Random. By all means, let's ban words that are fleeting slang. By the time the list comes out they are either gone already or have become a new, accepted meaning. It's bad enough wasting ink on these ravening peeves; it's worse wasting it on ravening peeves that are already irrelevant.
As for 'truthiness', I don't know if someone else coined the usage that Colbert made famous. I do know that's not the meaning listed in the OED with a citation from 1824.
My annual renomination for the LSSU Banned Words List: Banned words.
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I still don't like webinar.
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nope.
nothing else tastes like Limburger, but I don't like that, either.
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Brie smells like a fully peed diaper... :0P
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Cheater, the perfect portmanteau for cheese eater.
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nope.
nothing else tastes like Limburger, but I don't like that, either. Not liking webinars is one thing, not liking the word for them is a whole nother thing. How do you feel about the word moist?
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well, there's nothing wrong with the idea and practice of a web-based seminar, I just don't like the feeling of the word in my mouth. it sounds contrived to my ears; clever for the sake of being clever. the construction is perfectly fine, and makes sense, it's just yucky.
I have, at this point, and much to my chagrin, failed to come up with anything better.
moist doesn't bother me, but then, I'm a guy.
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Getting back to author as a verb, another example would be usher as a verb, or are they going to suggest we say that an usher ushes? BTW, the B&M OED has citations for author as a verb dating back to 1596 in exactly the meaning as presently used. They call it obsolete but I guess it's risen from the dead.
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>They call it obsolete until they've finished the ongoing updates, those judgments are often Murray's. (I just wwftd-ized cunctatory which was adjudged to be rare (one citation) - not so much, now. link
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