A few more ...

... that belong on our (increasingly comprehensive) "Never Would be Soon Enough" list:

When this is all over, certain half-dead words will need to be put out of their misery with a quick bullet to the back of the head. My candidates for a mercy verbicide: pivot, tank, cave, pushback, gravitas, message, game-changer,challenges, the entire litany of Palinesque nouns, attack dog, battleground,pork-barrel, earmark, impacting, and impactful. Other words that are too important to be executed will need to undergo a long and painful rehabilitation before they can be safely used again: change, experience, straight, truth, lie,victory, character, judgment, populist, and élite.

Comments

I've noticed "trickle-down" is making a bit of a comeback, although it wasn't mentioned in the debate last night. It's been on a 20-year hiatus, so we may not be tired of it yet, but I predict we soon will be.

Posted by a | October 16, 2008 11:12 AM

I nominate "jitters" in any financial context. Like the economy just needs to switch to decaf. Enough already.

Posted by Linda | October 16, 2008 3:08 PM

But isn't typing elite with a accent aigu in and of itself elite? ;)

Posted by Jenny | October 22, 2008 12:51 PM

SURGE!

Posted by sv | October 26, 2008 6:36 PM