Get 'woke' and stop using these words (according to NPR)...

 

When was the last time you called someone a GOAT? Or declared an "inflection point," or answered a yes-or-no question with "absolutely"? Probably too recently, say the faculty of Lake Superior State University, the Michigan college that releases an annual list of words that they say deserve to be "banished" from our vocabularies over "misuse, overuse and uselessness."

"Our nominators insisted, and our Arts and Letters faculty judges concurred, that to decree the Banished Words List 2023 as the GOAT is tantamount to gaslighting. Does that make sense?" said Rodney S. Hanley, the university's president, in a very serious statement announcing the new list.

"Irregardless, moving forward, it is what it is: an absolutely amazing inflection point of purposeless and ineptitude that overtakes so many mouths and fingers," Hanley added. Here's the full list of the school's banished words for this year:

 

GOAT
Inflection point 
Gaslighting
Moving forward
Amazing
Does that make sense? 
Irregardless
Absolutely
It is what it is

and last, but not least, they did include

Quiet quitting