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10-30-2009, 06:12 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty South
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I would erase "the"
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10-31-2009, 06:09 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Beautiful Gardens
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I think I'd take out "unacceptable" "taboo" or "unnatural". I'm sick of people telling me what's natural and proper behaviour and what or not I should be doing...
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10-31-2009, 11:01 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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The word, "like".
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11-04-2009, 08:36 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: colorado USA
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I declare this thread to be asinine.
NO matter what word got taken out of a dictionary, it's meaning would still live on and people would just figure out a new word to put in it's place.
Let the words live in peace!
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11-05-2009, 06:34 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by carakitty
I declare this thread to be asinine.
NO matter what word got taken out of a dictionary, it's meaning would still live on and people would just figure out a new word to put in it's place.
Let the words live in peace!
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Agreed. What's the point of deleting words from the dictionary? Even if you would remove it, a new one with the same meaning will show up eventually. Languages change, old words are replaced by new ones. Anyone who has ever read any classical literature can notice it.
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11-05-2009, 03:42 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: colorado USA
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Even if you've read something from just a decade ago! Language is constantly evolving. There's new slang being born every day. I think there may be an inner linguist here begging for some nurturing...
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11-05-2009, 03:45 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Fiddler's Green
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The coolness factor has now totally gone up in this thread.
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11-05-2009, 03:51 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Georgia
Posts: 286
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i would rather delete words from common usage like kinda, sort and whatever, these words vex me when in usage especially when givin as an answer to a very serious question they are evasive and cowardly arrrgh. i also think the word onomonapia is assinine
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11-05-2009, 09:02 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: colorado USA
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But Razeal,
Kinda, sorta, etc, are just bastardizations of the actual words 'kind of' and 'sort of'. If someone answers 'whatever' to a question they are too stupid to think things through or the question wasn't really that deep to begin with.
Why do you think onomonapia is asinine? Only one 'n' in asinine BTW. I learned that when I looked it up on dictionary.com to verify that it was indeed the proper word to describe my feelings. And I just looked up 'onomonapia' as well. I always thought that was a cool word to work with. Apparently you spelled that one wrong too though.
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11-08-2009, 04:58 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ingary
Posts: 145
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Absolutely - Everyone says it, no one means it, it drives me crazy. "Yes," "correct," "I agree," or even the overused "precisely," would be more tolerable.
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11-08-2009, 05:01 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ingary
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Oh and actually, "Actually" - it's constantly overused!
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11-08-2009, 05:06 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,332
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Razeal18
i would rather delete words from common usage like kinda, sort and whatever, these words vex me when in usage especially when givin as an answer to a very serious question they are evasive and cowardly arrrgh. i also think the word onomonapia is assinine
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Seeing that you completed your quest to delete the Shift-key on your keyboard I'd say you could succeed...
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11-08-2009, 06:11 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ingary
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Sorry I just have to point this out...
Antiquing — shopping for antiques
I hate it. When I go to the grocery store, am I fooding?
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11-08-2009, 06:12 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Ingary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Methadrine
Seeing that you completed your quest to delete the Shift-key on your keyboard I'd say you could succeed...
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Well said.
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11-08-2009, 06:23 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by carakitty
Why do you think onomonapia is asinine? Only one 'n' in asinine BTW. I learned that when I looked it up on dictionary.com to verify that it was indeed the proper word to describe my feelings. And I just looked up 'onomonapia' as well. I always thought that was a cool word to work with. Apparently you spelled that one wrong too though. |
Onomatopoeia is one of my favourite words.
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11-25-2009, 03:30 PM
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#41
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: America... Sadly...
Posts: 16
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Probably the word 'frosting'. Something about that word I just hate...
I think we can live by saying icing. Much shorter too.
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11-26-2009, 08:32 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
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Can I delete slang? Because I would delete "dude". Now, I'm known to let a "dude" slip every now and then, however, I live in the deep south of the United States, and I get that mongrel redneck-gangsta type speech that just brings my piss to a boil.
"Hey dude, man, dude, I got this shit dude, it's badass dude straight 'foir' (fire) dude! Shits 20 a G dude, you want it dude?"
-Actual quote from a random guy outside the movie theater trying to sell me overpriced weed.
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11-26-2009, 08:43 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Raxacoricofallapatorius
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KissMeDeadly
Can I delete slang? Because I would delete "dude". Now, I'm known to let a "dude" slip every now and then, however, I live in the deep south of the United States, and I get that mongrel redneck-gangsta type speech that just brings my piss to a boil.
"Hey dude, man, dude, I got this shit dude, it's badass dude straight 'foir' (fire) dude! Shits 20 a G dude, you want it dude?"
-Actual quote from a random guy outside the movie theater trying to sell me overpriced weed.
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I think it would be better to simply delete the deep south.
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11-26-2009, 10:22 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
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I wish we could incorporate the Greek versions of the different kinds of Love, rather than deleting the concept completely.
Mine would be "Fuck". I get tired of hearing and using it after a while. Yet, I love it.
"So strange is this heart of man." -- Toki Wartooth, Metalocalypse
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12-25-2009, 05:25 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Candyland
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There are so many words to choose from!
I would want to get rid of the term
"f*g hag".
Oh dear, thats actually not a "word." But still. . .
its terrible.
If you are a person of the female variety that tends to hang out with people of homosexual orientation, then you are instantly a
"f*g hag."
It just sounds so unpleasant and durogatory. (spelling? bleh, i cant think right now.)
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01-05-2010, 08:59 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Smexyville, Colorado
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"sharted" It's probably not in a proper dictionary, but jeeze... you can just say "hey, I shit my pants.. I had better go to the bathroom in a hurry!", instead of sounding like some slobbering piece of shit frat-boy... "heh heh, I sharted."
It's not the concept.. just the word... blech.
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01-14-2010, 07:20 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
Posts: 2,535
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I would probably delete the word "za" because in all reality, we don't need a slang word for pizza.
I mean, pizza is a short word on its own, and I just think it's a ridiculous word.
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01-14-2010, 10:33 PM
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#49
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Seattle
Posts: 190
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If I could delete one word from the English dictionary what would it be? Well my reasoning may be shallow but I would delete "kudos".
It just fucking pisses me off to hear that damn word batted about an office like they have any fucking idea of what it means while they apply it to the most banal of situations humanly possible. "Oh Phil, kudos on clearing that paper jam!" I want to seize them about the throat and bash their fucking heads on a convinced hard surface and skull fuck them until the goddamn crotch fruit they call their children qualify for Medicare...
I feel a little better now. Thank you.
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01-15-2010, 12:58 PM
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#50
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 290
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Ya uhh. For the sake of being an asshole, I will erase the word "DICTIONARY"
so fuck you. 
(Win)
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