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What words would you remove from the English Language?

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Which words serve no purpose, and you think should be removed from the language?
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'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.
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Flammable or Inflammable, pick one.
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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.
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'Fuck'

Just to see people struggle to find a replacement word. :P
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3rd Impact wrote:'Fuck'

Just to see people struggle to find a replacement word. :P
Shit really is far more versatile and heavily used.
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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").
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Shit really is far more versatile and heavily used.
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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.
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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


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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.

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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


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'Bling-bling'- just say 'big' or 'shiny', bloody hell.

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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


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Congrats on your thousandth post.
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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!"
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Most, if not all, of ebonics. Especially the "~izzle" words.
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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?
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I'd get rid of either "discrete" or "discreet," and let just one of them have both definitions.
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Oh, and 'leet'. Kill it, it sounds like a vegetable.
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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.
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Definitely ebonics. Also any word with silent letters or weird pronunciations.
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Darth Yoshi wrote:Definitely ebonics. Also any word with silent letters or weird pronunciations.
Say buy buy
phone
tone
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anything that ends in e has a silent letter. And weird pronunciations are teh l33t.
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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.
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Fuck fuck fuck.
Mother mother fuck,
Mother mother fuck fuck
Mother fuck, mother fuck
Noise noise noise.
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