[Air-l] Poll on annoying Internet neologisms

[Derek McMillan]

Actually I think calling a URL "earl" is rather endearing.

None of the top "annoying" neologisms annoy me however. It's a free 
country, people will develop the language the way they find most 
convenient and we can't lay down what words will or will not become 
current. Tell pupils a particular turn of phrase particularly annoys you 
and you are asking to hear it at every turn.

McDonalds know this to their cost. They have tried to have the term 
McJob (a low-paid non-union job) removed from the Oxford English 
Dictionary (and forced their employees to circulate petitions). They 
only attracted adverse publicity and ridicule for their pains.

	
	
		
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