The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #22715   Message #248040
Posted By: Bill D
27-Jun-00 - 05:19 PM
Thread Name: Worst New Words in the 'English' Lang.
Subject: RE: Worst New Words in the 'English' Lang.
wussup?...and 99% of everything above...

"verbing" is a particular pain...saw 'surface' used awhile back.."My staff has surfaced some new material on this"..

'like' 'you know' and 'yuhnowhadimean'will get me frothing...

Heard a black woman on a talk show a few years ago touting and defending Ebonics as a subject worthy of being TAUGHT in schools! SHE was perfectly fluent in English, too, but was willing to allow inner city kids to grow up unable to compete in job searches because Ebonics was not tolerated in most businesses above the janitor level.