A Michigan university proposed a list of word that should not be used anymore. It’s quite humorous. In addition to the the examples in the title of this post, there were examples such as obamanomics, shovel-ready, transparency (in one sense of the word, not in general).
My take is, if people are going to use words like “unfriend” (to remove someone from your friends list), let them. It saves time. Time is money. Why waste words, why not abbreviate what we are trying to say? In keeping with the spirit of abbreviation, that’s the end of my post.
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