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If you wear an itchy uniform, have chemistry in the morning and your alarm clock is a parent, then fine. But also: live a little, go to work hungover. Again, everybody else is. Words you love are dying all over the place, yet this centuries-old signaller of faux-intelligence and an incoming garbage opinion prevails. Used by people who want to come across as clever, authoritative or interesting, but actually sound argumentative and pretentious. And old. This sobriquet for the man of your dreams would be charming if he were the lead in a romantic novel.
The moth-eaten cape of respectability afforded to demeaning words, teasing, bullying or harassment. Banter is a secret handshake that permits you to say just about anything you want and nobody can get offended. If banter had a face, you would never tire of punching it. If you are being blocked from reading Subscriber Exclusive content, first confirm you are logged in using the account with which you subscribed.
If you are still experiencing issues, please describe the problem below and we will be happy to assist you. New words and phrases twerk and tweet their way into our vocabularies every year. Our rapidly changing cultural and digital world creates new expressions that quickly become part of our everyday lexicon.
Wordsmiths at the Oxford Dictionaries Online added several new words in including buzzworthy, cakepop, fauxhawk, and of course — twerk.
We might not talk with each other all that much anymore, but we text! Dump in the digital trash heap.
Forget forever. In my humble opinion IMHO these little gems are vocabulary vom vomit and need to go away. Shut the front door! We know what you're really saying.
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