The Internet has much to answer for, but one of its chiefest sins is its relentless stupifidication of the English language. And no, I did not just make up the word "stupifidication."
UK pollsters YouGov have just completed a survey on the web's most-hated words, the abominations that threaten to turn English into a long series of "plzkthxbye" utterances. At the top of the list (and rightly so) is the word "folksonomy." It's followed by:
* Blogosphere
* Blog
* Netiquette
* Blook (don't ask)
* Webinar
* Vlog
* Social Networking
* Cookie
* Wiki
By Nate Anderson
Thursday, October 4
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