An inflection point for GOATs: Please quiet quit these 'banished words' moving forward
In their annual "Banished Words" list, the faculty of Lake Superior State University also suggest removing from your vocabulary overused phrases like "does that make sense?" and "it is what it is."
by Becky Sullivan
Jan 01, 2023
2 minutes
When was the last time you called someone a GOAT? Or declared an "inflection point," or answered a yes-or-no question with "absolutely"?
Probably too recently, say the faculty of Lake Superior State University, the Michigan college that releases an annual list of words that they say deserve to be "banished" from our vocabularies over "misuse, overuse and uselessness."
"Our nominators insisted, and our Arts and Letters faculty.
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