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What words would you remove from the English Language?
Posted: 2004-01-03 03:31pm
by Straha
Which words serve no purpose, and you think should be removed from the language?
Posted: 2004-01-03 03:35pm
by lukexcom
'ho
homie
gangstah
fo'shizzle
And everything like that. It just doesn't sound all that right to me. Like someone took the language and mutilated it for their own sick, twisted schemes.
Posted: 2004-01-03 03:36pm
by AnimeJet
Flammable or Inflammable, pick one.
Posted: 2004-01-03 03:50pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Anything a gangsta rapper uses.
And the flammable/inflammable thing pisses me off, also. I lost a mark on a high-school chemistry test due to that, thought inflammable was nonflammable.
Posted: 2004-01-03 04:14pm
by Companion Cube
'Fuck'
Just to see people struggle to find a replacement word.
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Posted: 2004-01-03 04:18pm
by Sea Skimmer
3rd Impact wrote:'Fuck'
Just to see people struggle to find a replacement word.
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Shit really is far more versatile and heavily used.
Posted: 2004-01-03 04:29pm
by zombie84
shit and fuck are pretty interchangable but fuck extends itself into uses that shit simply doesnt apply to.
"I fucked her"
"fuck off"
"fuck you"
"fucking asshole"
i guess the only advantage to shit is that it can be used as a object and noun itself--"eat shit", "shit head", "in deep shit", "i have to take a shit"--but personally i find substituting fuck into most of those works just as well; the only exclusive use of shit is when it actually refers to the bodily function of expelling feces--"i have to take a shit" for example cannot be used with fuck because it changes the meaning. But otherwise, fuck is much more versatile because unlike shit, it has no real meaning and can be fitted into any possible situation (you could even use it in the above example--"i have to take a fucking shit").
Posted: 2004-01-03 04:30pm
by Luzifer's right hand
Shit really is far more versatile and heavily used.
fuck
Posted: 2004-01-03 04:37pm
by Straha
Fuck is one of the few words that is verb, noun, adverb, and adjective. It's fun to try and combine all four into a coherent sentence.
Posted: 2004-01-03 04:41pm
by Zac Naloen
Straha wrote:Fuck is one of the few words that is verb, noun, adverb, and adjective. It's fun to try and combine all four into a coherent sentence.
fuck you, you fucking fucked up fucker
did i do it?
Posted: 2004-01-03 04:44pm
by UltraViolence83
Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck. Shit? Fuck.
Ass. Fuck fuck fuck fucking shit shitty ass fuck. Fuck fuck.
Fuckity fucker.
Fucking asshole.
Shitfuck.
PS: I don't think any word should be removed from the dictionary or language. the great thing about English is that it absorbs everything.
Long live Cultural Imperialism!
Posted: 2004-01-03 04:44pm
by Straha
Zac Naloen wrote:Straha wrote:Fuck is one of the few words that is verb, noun, adverb, and adjective. It's fun to try and combine all four into a coherent sentence.
fuck you, you fucking fucked up fucker
did i do it?
Congrats on your thousandth post.
Posted: 2004-01-03 04:50pm
by The Aliens
'Bling-bling'- just say 'big' or 'shiny', bloody hell.
*Standing in wreckage* You mean inflammable means flammable? What a country!
Posted: 2004-01-03 04:53pm
by Zac Naloen
Straha wrote:Zac Naloen wrote:Straha wrote:Fuck is one of the few words that is verb, noun, adverb, and adjective. It's fun to try and combine all four into a coherent sentence.
fuck you, you fucking fucked up fucker
did i do it?
Congrats on your thousandth post.
bleh, i don't give a crap about post counts
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Posted: 2004-01-03 04:57pm
by The Aliens
Congrats on your 1001st post.
Oh, and don't let people say gay unless they're referring to the emotion or adjective of happiness, or homosexual male/female. I'm sick of people saying "th4t phuc|<1ng fl0ppi3 d15|< i5 teh g4y!"
Posted: 2004-01-03 05:13pm
by DPDarkPrimus
Most, if not all, of ebonics. Especially the "~izzle" words.
Re: What words would you remove from the English Language?
Posted: 2004-01-03 05:15pm
by Hamel
Straha wrote:Which words serve no purpose, and you think should be removed from the language?
Are we talking proper english or all these bullshit words a bunch of kids made up?
Posted: 2004-01-03 05:16pm
by Andrew J.
I'd get rid of either "discrete" or "discreet," and let just one of them have both definitions.
Posted: 2004-01-03 05:20pm
by The Aliens
Oh, and 'leet'. Kill it, it sounds like a vegetable.
Posted: 2004-01-03 05:29pm
by General Zod
definitely get rid of leet. i'd also get rid of the word Xtian. not Christian, Xtian. it's annoying hearing someone use the word Xtian. . . .imo it's the 'pagan/wiccan/satanic/whatever' version of leet.
Posted: 2004-01-03 07:21pm
by Darth Yoshi
Definitely ebonics. Also any word with silent letters or weird pronunciations.
Posted: 2004-01-03 07:46pm
by darthdavid
Darth Yoshi wrote:Definitely ebonics. Also any word with silent letters or weird pronunciations.
Say buy buy
phone
tone
prone
done
prune
anything that ends in e has a silent letter. And weird pronunciations are teh l33t.
Re: What words would you remove from the English Language?
Posted: 2004-01-03 08:19pm
by Straha
Hamel wrote:Straha wrote:Which words serve no purpose, and you think should be removed from the language?
Are we talking proper english or all these bullshit words a bunch of kids made up?
If it's in the dictionary, it can go.
Posted: 2004-01-03 08:52pm
by Gil Hamilton
Fuck fuck fuck.
Mother mother fuck,
Mother mother fuck fuck
Mother fuck, mother fuck
Noise noise noise.
1 2 1 2 3 4 Noise Noise Noise
Smokin' weed, smokin' whiz
Doin' coke, drinkin' beers
Drinkin' beers beers beers
Rollin' phatties, smokin' blunts
Who smokes the blunts?
We smokes the blunts!
Rollin' blunts and smokin' blunts...
(Can I have a nickle bag)
Fifteen bucks, little man!
Put that shit in my hand
And if that money doesn't show
Then you owe me owe me oh!
Posted: 2004-01-03 08:55pm
by The Cleric
Jay and Silent Bob!!! YES!! They are so cool.