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For personal reasons I'd like to get rid of "stat". It's way over used in situations that don't call for it or just shouldn't be considered "stat".

Also I'm not a fan of "proactive" and "expidite"
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Tsyroc wrote:For personal reasons I'd like to get rid of "stat". It's way over used in situations that don't call for it or just shouldn't be considered "stat".

Also I'm not a fan of "proactive" and "expidite"
You forgot utilize(sp?)!
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Post by El Moose Monstero »

Dictionary. Just to piss people off.

Metrosexual. See rant in older thread.

I'd also like to see conformity of English/American english - ie - pronounce herbs with an h and decide one way or another which spellngs of color/colour honor/honour or aluminum/aluminium to use.
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darthdavid wrote:
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.
The "e" on the end seems to change how you pronounce the wod. If you don't have an "e" on tone, you pronounce the "o" like a "u", and if you add an "e", then you make it a long "o". Or something like that.

I'd have to say "bling-bling", as it seems to be the only "gansta" word that's actaully in the dictionary.

I'd slowly phase words out of the dictionary, get rid of words to the point where you can't express certain feelings, and call it "Newspeak".
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Most uses of the *F* word EVER in a song. (Per capita.)

[size=0]Fuck
Fuck dis shit
Fuck give it to me
Man fuck you,
fuck me,
fuck us,
fuck tom, fuck Mary, fuck Gus,
fuck darius
fuck the west coast and fuck everybody on the east
eat shit and die!
but fuck off at least
fuck preschoolers,
fuck rulers,
kings and queens and gold jewelers,
fuck wine coolers,
fuck chickens fuck ducks
everybody in your crew sucks!
Punk mother fucks!
Fuck critics-fuck your review
even if you like me-fuck you!
fuck your momma
fuck your moms momma
fuck the Beastie Boys and the Dalai Lama
fuck the rain forest
fuck a Forest Gump
you probably like it in the rump
fuck a shoe pump
fuck the real dealin
fuck all the fakes
fuck all fifty-two states!
Ooh!
And fuck you!
If I only could Id set the world on fire
Say fuck the world!
Fuck the world!
If I only could Id set the world on fire
Fuck them all!
Fuck them all!
If I only could Id set the world on fire
Say fuck the world!
Fuck the world!
If I only could Id set the world on fire
Fuck them all!
Fuck them all!
Fuck Oprah
fuck opera
fuck a soap opera
fuck a pop locker and a cock blocker
fuck your girlfriend
I probably did her already
fuck Kyle and his brother Tom Petty
jump steady!
My homie fuck him what ya gonna do?
Fuck that bitch, fuck you!
Yeah well fuck you too!
Don’t bother trying to analyze these rhymes
in this song I say fuck ninety-three
times!
Fuck the president
fuck your welfare
fuck your government
and fuck Fred Bear!
Fuck Nugent like anybody gives a fuck-
you like to hunt a lot---- so fucking what?!
Fuck disco,
the count of Monte Cristo,
fuck Sisqo, and Jack and Jerry Brisco,
and fuck everyone who went down with the Titanic in a panic
Im like fuck you all!

Fuck Celine Dion
and fuck Dion Worwick you both make me sick
suck my dick!
Fuck the Berlin wall-both sides of it
and fuck Lyle Lovett whoever the fuck that is!
Fuck everybody in the hemisphere
fuck them across the world and fuck them right here!

You know that guy that operates the Rouge River Draw Bridge in Delray and Jefferson?
fuck him!!
Fuck your idea
fuck your gonorrhea
fuck your diarrhea
Rocky Miavea fuck your wife
your homie did hes fucking you!
Fuck the police and a 502!
Fuck Spin, Rolling Stone,
and fuck Vibe-fuck everybody inside!
Whoevers on the cover fuck his mother fuck
your little brothers homie from around the way and fuck Violent J![/size]

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I'd nix every word beginning or ending with a vowel.
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Whom has got to go. I know how to use it properly, but most people don't and its frickin' pointless. Begone.
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  1. All the words I can't spell. Admittedly this would leave us all with an extremely limited vocabulary.
  2. The word 'doable'. It sounds stupid and there are already perfectly good words in the English language that mean the same thing (eg. 'feasible', 'viable').
  3. I would also abolish the letter 'c', because it just confuses people.
Darth Yoshi wrote:Definitely ebonics. Also any word with silent letters or weird pronunciations.
My name has a silent letter in it. :(
After all, this is completely straightforward. What could possibly go wrong?

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I would remove many of the words found here.
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Chardok wrote:Most uses of the *F* word EVER in a song. (Per capita.)

[size=0]Fuck
Fuck dis shit
Fuck give it to me
Man fuck you,
fuck me,
fuck us,
fuck tom, fuck Mary, fuck Gus,
fuck darius
fuck the west coast and fuck everybody on the east
eat shit and die!
but fuck off at least
fuck preschoolers,
fuck rulers,
kings and queens and gold jewelers,
fuck wine coolers,
fuck chickens fuck ducks
everybody in your crew sucks!
Punk mother fucks!
Fuck critics-fuck your review
even if you like me-fuck you!
fuck your momma
fuck your moms momma
fuck the Beastie Boys and the Dalai Lama
fuck the rain forest
fuck a Forest Gump
you probably like it in the rump
fuck a shoe pump
fuck the real dealin
fuck all the fakes
fuck all fifty-two states!
Ooh!
And fuck you!
If I only could Id set the world on fire
Say fuck the world!
Fuck the world!
If I only could Id set the world on fire
Fuck them all!
Fuck them all!
If I only could Id set the world on fire
Say fuck the world!
Fuck the world!
If I only could Id set the world on fire
Fuck them all!
Fuck them all!
Fuck Oprah
fuck opera
fuck a soap opera
fuck a pop locker and a cock blocker
fuck your girlfriend
I probably did her already
fuck Kyle and his brother Tom Petty
jump steady!
My homie fuck him what ya gonna do?
Fuck that bitch, fuck you!
Yeah well fuck you too!
Don’t bother trying to analyze these rhymes
in this song I say fuck ninety-three
times!
Fuck the president
fuck your welfare
fuck your government
and fuck Fred Bear!
Fuck Nugent like anybody gives a fuck-
you like to hunt a lot---- so fucking what?!
Fuck disco,
the count of Monte Cristo,
fuck Sisqo, and Jack and Jerry Brisco,
and fuck everyone who went down with the Titanic in a panic
Im like fuck you all!

Fuck Celine Dion
and fuck Dion Worwick you both make me sick
suck my dick!
Fuck the Berlin wall-both sides of it
and fuck Lyle Lovett whoever the fuck that is!
Fuck everybody in the hemisphere
fuck them across the world and fuck them right here!

You know that guy that operates the Rouge River Draw Bridge in Delray and Jefferson?
fuck him!!
Fuck your idea
fuck your gonorrhea
fuck your diarrhea
Rocky Miavea fuck your wife
your homie did hes fucking you!
Fuck the police and a 502!
Fuck Spin, Rolling Stone,
and fuck Vibe-fuck everybody inside!
Whoevers on the cover fuck his mother fuck
your little brothers homie from around the way and fuck Violent J![/size]

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I don't think I'd want to eliminate words as much as I'd like see synonyms receive more distinctive meanings. For example, I wish the various synomyms of "stupid" were split up, so each refers to a specific variety of stupidity. I would also establish a much higher standard for a slang term to be included in the dictionary, like that it has to be in common usage for at last 40 or 50 years before it's added.
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Morrigan wrote:
  1. All the words I can't spell. Admittedly this would leave us all with an extremely limited vocabulary.
  2. The word 'doable'. It sounds stupid and there are already perfectly good words in the English language that mean the same thing (eg. 'feasible', 'viable').
  3. I would also abolish the letter 'c', because it just confuses people.
Darth Yoshi wrote:Definitely ebonics. Also any word with silent letters or weird pronunciations.
My name has a silent letter in it. :(
Hmm. Touché. Well, I suppose names can be excepted.
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'god' and 'faith'.
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Darth Yoshi wrote:
Morrigan wrote:
Darth Yoshi wrote:Definitely ebonics. Also any word with silent letters or weird pronunciations.
My name has a silent letter in it. :(
Hmm. Touché. Well, I suppose names can be excepted.
Or we could institue some radical re-designing of the alphabete that would allow people to actually pronounce my name right in the first place.

Not that I'm bitter, mind.
After all, this is completely straightforward. What could possibly go wrong?

THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR EMERGENCY PANTS!

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There is no need to remove anything. The english language is fine as it stands.
I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
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evilcat4000 wrote:There is no need to remove anything. The english language is fine as it stands.
Perhaps, but meddling is fun. :mrgreen:
After all, this is completely straightforward. What could possibly go wrong?

THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR EMERGENCY PANTS!

I hate Matt Damon and there's not a damn thing you can do about it

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