{"id":2591,"date":"2003-01-02T23:29:21","date_gmt":"2003-01-02T17:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/02\/banned-words\/"},"modified":"2003-01-02T23:29:21","modified_gmt":"2003-01-02T17:59:21","slug":"banned-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/banned-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><font size = -1> Overused cliches, wordy redundancies and hyperbolic phrases &#8212; including the Bushism &#8220;make no mistake about it&#8221; &#8212; were declared banished on Wednesday by the university overseers of an annual list of banned words<\/font><\/cite>.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyID=1980303\" class= \"source\">Reuters <\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Other banned cliches include &#8220;that said&#8221;, &#8220;undisclosed secret location&#8221;  and &#8220;untimely death&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly dislike the Americanism &#8220;you probably want to&#8221; which I guess is a mistaken attempt to soften the phrase  &#8220;you should&#8221;.  If I say &#8220;you should&#8221; I am advising you of something. You may find that patronising, but isn&#8217;t &#8220;you probably want to&#8221; even more offensive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overused cliches, wordy redundancies and hyperbolic phrases &#8212; including the Bushism &#8220;make no mistake about it&#8221; &#8212; were declared banished on Wednesday by the university overseers of an annual list of banned words.(Reuters ) Other banned cliches include &#8220;that said&#8221;, &#8220;undisclosed secret location&#8221; and &#8220;untimely death&#8221;. I particularly dislike the Americanism &#8220;you probably want to&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}