What words would you want banned? 1

[kjv1611]

==>Words that I'd like to see abolished:

Ain't

That thar's fightin' talk 'round these parts, ya whipper snapper!

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[Opieo]

I actually see ain't as a useful contraction of words where one failed to exist prior. Saying that however, I realize that it is a contraction I am not using.

And amongst my friends, saying uber should be banned would be fighting words as well.

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[LizSara]

<possibly thick moment>

What is "ain't" a contraction of?

</possibly thick moment>

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." ~ Nietzsche"

 

[CajunCenturion]

am not

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[KornGeek]

Ain't" can also be a contraction of "are not" (even though a perfectly workable contraction already exists) when used in a context such as "You ain't gonna win.

 

[mjldba]

Words I would like to see "voted off the island" .....

amazing

awesome

 

[GSCaupling]

I still remember having to excise "ain't" from my vocabulary when I went to college. Although I'm a proud North Carolinian, I didn't want to come across as too much of a hick around all the yankee students at my school.

I never really thought about the actual contraction. "Am not" works for "I ain't paying two bucks for a dadgum cup of coffee." Of course, if two are more southerners are displeased with Starbucks, they may properly state We ain't paying two bucks....

I think the secret is being able to conjugate barbeque.
GS

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[addy]

One thing I would like to banish (this may just be a UK thing even though it 'originates' from the US) is adding the suffix 'gate' to dramatic events / crises / scandals / anything else the media feels like.

My understanding is that this comes from the Watergate scandal.

However, the word 'gate' was not a suffix here, it was the full name. No one calls it Watergategate.

So why do the media persist in doing this?

Annoying.


Or is it just me?

 

[Stella740pl]

So why do the media persist in doing this?

Probably, the same stupid reasons marketing persist in adding "-licious" as a suffix everywhere it can, resulting in ugliest words possible. "Fruit-yoglicious", anyone? (And I didn’t make this one up.) Those new words drive me crazy, and I would like them banned. (And "-licious" is not the only one, there are more, but this one just came to mind as a good example.)

 

[tcsbiz]

I would ban the word gift when it is used as anything but a noun.

Wrong: I was gifted a toaster.
Correct: I was given a toaster.

Wrong: I gifted a toaster.
Correct: I gave a toaster.

Wrong: Were you gifted over the holidays?
Correct: Were you given anything over the holidays?

I was asked the last one at work. I replied, "I'm always gifted. It doesn't change just because it's a holiday".

 

[SantaMufasa]

TCSBiz, your contribution reminds me of a very brief conversation recently between my mother and me:

I: "Mom, when I was a child, was I gifted?"

Mom: "You must have been...I certainly wouldn't have paid for you!"

Mufasa
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[SamBones]

Here's one I just came across that I'm pretty tired of. Anything of the form "X is the new black" to indicate something that's now "in".

I just saw an article titled, "Bailouts are the new black". That's taking it just a bit too far.

 

[kjv1611]

I think the word, "love" should be banned from being used by The Hallmark Channel in their movies.

Now, honestly, I've not noticed it in a while, but I can remember back oh easily 6 months ago when every commercial, it seemed, was for a Hallmark Original Movie with titles like these, and sometimes back-to-back in the commercials (and that's saying a lot, I think, in that I rarely watch anything anymore anyhow.. that's a lot of 'any..'
[ul][li]Love Whispers Softly[/li]
[li]Love in the Meadow[/li]
[li]Love Comes Running[/li]
[li]Love on the Mountain Top[/li]
[li]Living Next to Love[/li]
[li]What's Love Gotta Do With It?[/li]
[/ul]

Wait, maybe the last one ain't from the Hallmark Channel..

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[KenCunningham]

'Tasked'. Grrr.

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[PaulBricker]

This is probably U.S. specific, but any administrative position referred to as Czar. Like Energy Czar. Get me out of here.

Paul

 

[acl03]

I wish Troy Aikman was banned from using the word "what". He constantly adds it to sentences where it has no use...

He has more yards today than [red]what[/red] he has had all season long.

Jimmy Johnson (his old coach) does the same thing. I wonder where he got it!




Thanks,
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[Michael52x]

When do the burnings start?
These pesky words are everywhere!
They must be rooted out, and destroyed!
I have to put more words in sentances!
I dont mind odd language, it is definitive of cultures, and generations.
I usually respond with my own type of argle-bargle when hearing an annoying phrase, but then I dont have the TV on much, and making fun of "expressions" isntnotarentaint cool.
Should I use bullets? Orjusttypeinonelongdrawnoutincomprehensiblebabble?
Ah, words that convey our true thoughts. Minimalists.
Texting anyone? {I, don't know how!}

"Impatience will reward you with dissatisfaction" RMS Cosmics'97

 

[SantaMufasa]

I don't wish to ban the words, below...I want to ban their brainless abuse. The abuse occurs because of a brain disease that I call, conjunctivitis...the pathology that happens when people use conjunctions (e.g. "and", "or") to compound subjects or objects with pronouns:

People perpetrate these abuses:

Steve took my wife and I to dinner.
Me or Karen will do the dishes.

Yet those same abusers would never think of perpetrating obvious mistakes when there is no conjunction:

Steve took I to dinner.

Me will do the dishes.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
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“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”

 

[GSCaupling]

But Santa, if people heard me utter the phrase [blue]"I will do the dishes,"[/blue] they would immediately take my temperature and ask if I were feeling okay. They have never heard me say such a thing...

GS

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[CajunCenturion]

==> Me will do the dishes.
Clearly, 'Me' is a proper noun and not a pronoun.

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