You Get To Remove One Word From The English Language

I can appreciate that my first instinct was to look on Youtube for a grand compilation of all the times the word "toon" is used in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

Well?

"Meh."

Refudiate.

Luckily for you two, those were never part of the English language in the first place!

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If I can remove the word "hipsters", does the entire demographic go along with it? Because that's what I'll choose.

You read my thoughts Soli-chan .
That was exactly what I was thinking about!

"Turgid."

This is not a sexy word, and people need to stop using it like it is.

You should have been there when Elyscape and I were trying to explain Shira Oka to a third party over breakfast at Chipotle. I still can't tell if that look was disbelief or disdain.

It was probably disliedai. v___v

no such thing exists and it is a damn shame.

"I", just to see what happens when people can't talk about themselves.

"THIS ONE went to Hot Topic the other day and..."

"so-called"

No, please don't do this.
Please.
We'll be overrun by people saying things like "So Me went to the store the other day and..."/in pain

So tag team -- choose "me" as yours.

Let's just all start referring to ourselves as "we" like Gollum or The Borg. Take your pick.

Was this word used by the Mycon? If it wasn't, it should have been. Juffo-Wup and turgid go together like peanut butter and jelly.

Oh god no please don't. I'll accept cilia or tentacles even before turgid. Okay that's even worse. *reaching for the brain bleach*

I'm suddenly picturing everyone talking like the Khajiit from the Elder Scrolls. I don't mind that kind of speech pattern coming from fantasy cat people... but I feel that would become very annoying very quickly IRL.

Yep! The exact line is "Juffo-Wup fills in my fibers and I grow turgid. Violent action ensues." Also, if you aren't already doing so, you should go read sinnick's Star Control 2 LP.

Welp, no wonder! I must have successfully deleted it (except for the shadow horror). *here goes the 5th attempt to forget*

In my mind it will forever mean "like a turd". Which is another word that could do with removal.

Also, I am unable to see the word "ocelot" without thinking of these guys:

Oh good. Talisker turned us into a nation of Goreans.

I immediately thought of Hanar. Considering how many people apparently have the brains of jellyfish, it might be an appropriate change.

Ocelots and Axolotls was such a good game.

Whoever came up with the word "penis" came up with a phrase that is, unfortunately, way too accurate sounding. I'd eject all of our words for genitalia, including slang. "Cock" can stay. I like cock.

Edit: I "like" cock. Wait, shit that's not right either. Oh well.

Boring and mundane, but I would like to remove the word "occasionally", because I don't seem to be able to type it without using spelling correction software. I would like to replace "occasionally" with the word "spilkly", which I can spell without help and is presently not being used for anything.

'Crisps'.

'sps' is an awkward collection of letters to say, and I end up over-enunciating until it basically has two syllables.
This is... one language advantage that I'm willing to concede to American English.

I would like for the word "valid" to die one thousand painful deaths. This would force people to stop using it as a vapid linguistic gesture and force them instead to use meaningful and specific synonyms such as: relevant, topical, applicable, well-reasoned, well-formed, accurate, correct, conforming, sensible, reasonable, provable, demonstrated, logically follows. There wouldn't be so many synonyms if people stopped using "valid" to mean damn near anything and it might remove much confusion in otherwise reasonable discourse.

Sounds like a valid concern.

You'd love Norwegian then, with placenames like "Hafrsfjord".

Oh, but it's okay, the first r is silent.

Yup, we have some of those words too - like "zmrzlina" (icecream)

I now have a mental image of Kenshin going to Hot Topic and I can't breathe now, thanks.

And I am sad someone suggested removing the word "like". How else am I supposed to describe my feelings towards someone since "love" is generally too strong a word? "I love you platonically!" is just so long-winded.

But anyway, if I had to remove a word from the English language, it would be irregardless. BECAUSE THAT IS NOT A FUCKING WORD, NO MATTER WHAT AUTOCORRECT TELLS ME. IT CAN GO DIE IN A FIRE.

Well, it is a word. It's just a dumb one.

Fanny.

No, it's not. Regardless is a word. Irregardless is something people say because they don't know that regardless is the word they want.

Right, but it is indeed a word. Even you said so!

You have a point!

And now I must go cry over this fact. Why does irregardless exist why