Anti Word of the Week: Besties

Posted by Jack on 12.12.2008 at 12:53 pm

Because I’m a total curmudgeon, this will now be weekly feature in which I rail on modern language and the destruction thereof.  In a recent blog post, our Queen of all things reading related, Dana Barrett, used the expressions “…your book club besties.”  Now I am no old fuddy-duddy or anything of the sort (although I certainly fall in the Harold Bloom canonical works category than Oprah kitsch pick of the month category), but is this a commonly used term?  You would think, considering that I am still ID’d at rated R films, forget about liquor stores, that I would be more in touch with such vernacular.

I sauntered over to the wasteland of casual verbiage that is Urban Dictionary to find this:

[I’m not even going to touch “totes,” that curious mixture of hipster/Hilton speak Read more…

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