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| commawonk | Posted – 8/21/2005 11:59:50 AM | show profile Gawker notes that at Vanity Fair, the following words are banned: ''boasted,'' ''chuckled,'' ''eatery,'' ''glitz,'' ''golfer,'' ''graduate'' (as verb), ''honcho,'' ''joked,'' ''pen'' (as verb), ''sleaze,'' and ''weird.'' Anyone work for publications that have similar lists? What's on yours? |
| slink | Posted – 8/21/2005 12:55:02 PM | show profile ''Golfer''? ''Celeb'' is banned at In Style, as are all those variations on ''said'' (''chuckled,'' ''gushes,'' etc.). |
| barriticus | Posted – 8/21/2005 4:10:22 PM | show profile | email poster Funny. I did a little work for Star a while back, and all of those words are actually required in each article. Just kidding. Kind of. |
| j.hodl | Posted – 8/21/2005 4:49:17 PM | show profile Why not ''Golfer''? They've already banned ''ostentatious.'' Maybe they're trying to move Vanity Fair downmarket... |
| Miniver Cheever | Posted – 8/21/2005 5:12:35 PM | show profile At AOL the words ''Twat'' and ''Handjob'' and ''Balls'' are banded. I learned that the hard way. |
| inovisiona | Posted – 8/21/2005 9:41:30 PM | show profile ha-ha |
| alleycat | Posted – 8/21/2005 9:56:42 PM | show profile not quite the same thing, but I once worked in a magazine office where the staff were banned from using the word ''specifically'' in conversation. Apparently the editor (a native english speaker, by the way) couldn't pronounce it correctly and had issues with anyone who could. |
| belinda | Posted – 8/21/2005 10:07:16 PM | show profile I have an ancient-old NYT stylebook banning the word ''pregnant.'' |
| flipflap | Posted – 8/21/2005 10:16:27 PM | show profile ''wild'' and ''crazy'' are on the banned list of one trade mag that i write for. my own list of banned words includes ''fashionista'' and ''buzz'' |
| JimmyG | Posted – 8/22/2005 11:12:01 AM | show profile I worked at a mag that had just recently began taking advertising after 25 years and was doing a big anniversary issue on future-looking topics by ''name'' authors. In the article about where advertising was headed in the next quarter-century they changed every use of the word ''advertising'' to ''marketing'' for fear they would otherwise offend their relatively limited client pool. Also, if a cigarette ad was running in a given issue we could nowhere in the book mention the word ''cancer.'' |
| flipflap | Posted – 8/22/2005 11:35:35 AM | show profile golfer just occurred to me it may have been a typo. perhaps they meant ''gofer'' |
| Sissy Barbecue | Posted – 8/22/2005 2:57:21 PM | show profile I worked at a direct seller of kitchen tools in Addison, IL, where the following were banned from internal and external communications materials: Magic Magical Mystic Mystical Halloween Got Don't Forget And lastly, and negative word, such as no, not, never...It was the job from H-E- Double Hockey Sticks. |
| saipantastic | Posted – 8/22/2005 9:24:22 PM | show profile glad words like ''boasted'' (as in, the hotel boasted such amenities as...) and ''eatery'' and ''pen'' are banned. Add to that ''rocked'' and ''sported'' and ''she's not alone'' and it's a good start. |
| Ward | Posted – 8/22/2005 10:22:53 PM | show profile Words banned by college profs ... seems, exemplified Words banned by editors Noted, explained, added ... only said This, that One editor actually tried to ban 'was' She was not successful |
| lissa2k | Posted – 8/31/2005 3:23:03 PM | show profile I worked for a business magazine that banned ''proactive.'' Frankly, it was a relief. |
| clairezulkey | Posted – 8/31/2005 5:04:13 PM | show profile | email poster I work for a medical journal. Never EVER call it a magazine! ------ Editor of MBToolBox |
| lvanderkam | Posted – 9/1/2005 11:04:55 AM | show profile ''She's not alone/he's not alone/they're not alone'' deserve to be banned. The lazy man's way of transitioning from an anecdotal lede. |
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