AIBU to ask what words you'd ban?

[1066vegan]

JRM's style guide made me think about this. Top of my list would be "hun", followed closely by "Crimbo" and "hubby".

What words would you love never to have to read or hear again?

Innovative and delighted. Former journalist and now work in PR. These two words get overused the most in quotes.

Though most of JRM's style guide bugged me for being wrong, out of date, and seriously inconsistent.

The end of double-spacing in the computer age is my hill to die on.

The ubiquitous ‘cheeky glasses of wine’ used to be amusing about 25 years ago, debatable even then, but is boring now.

Not a word but I abhor face painting, another ubiquitous activity. Anything happening, when in doubt roll out the no doubt germ encrusted face paints.

All swear words, full time mummy, yummy mummy, hollibobs, crimbo, ickle, most daft names that people call babies.

Oops presses too soon, hate bubba, babes, baba etc. It’s a baby.

Would you like a cuppa Yo? I've just brewed up!

Americanism

I especially despise its use when the word is a valid word that is in normal use outside some posters' narrow frame of reference. I have GOTTEN irritated by this before but will not give up.

Literally used to mean figuratively is something worse than annoying...

The same is true of the obliteration of [feel an emotion] about and adoption of the blanket use of [feel an emotion] for - they mean different things, and wiping [feel an emotion] about out of a generation's vocabulary makes the language that little bit less flexible.

Language evolves yes, but sometimes it devolves and becomes poorer and loses subtlety of meaning. Language becoming less nuanced isn't evolution, not all changes are progress.

Boob and bum. As in 'on the boob'. Hate it. I heard someone say 'I need to change his bum' the other day which was ghastly.

Yo how true, face painting is indeed a way of transferring snot from one child to another, but it does build up herd immunity!

Not bothered about gotten, we had that first, it got exported to the colonies with British settlers and has now come home!

Dangly they use "confraggle" a lot round here, but we're pretty well a pikey ghetto :-)

@gnomeisland everything you've said x 100

Par-boil.

Does my fucking head in.

Can't cook roast dinners for my dad because he'll ask if I par-boiled the potatoes before I roast them.

Makes me rage and want to cry.

No idea why.

I boil my potatoes for a while, then roast them, btw. But it's not par-boiling. Because it sounds wanky.

Confraggle? Nope. Meaning?

Actually
Basically
Like
You know.
Innit?

Blip and glee. Both so twee. And twee.

Yummy, delish and om-nom-nom.

Get. Serves no useful purpose.

Living my best life/making memories-fuck right off!

Mumma
Mamabear and all equivalents
Non-binary

Peeps
Date Night
Hun

I am getting top tips for upping my annoyingness on here

Motherhubbard is so entering my vocab as a replacement swear word , because funny

Foof.
Grim.
"Food of the gods"
Poorly
Cross

I would ban people from saying "good morning". Fuck off and leave me alone.

I presume the C word you all mean is cis. Worst word ever.

" can I have...?" Instead of "May I have..?"

'Upcoming'. No, we had a perfectly good word already without becoming American - forthcoming.

'Impact' as a verb. What the hell was wrong with 'affect'? Something has an impact on something, it doesn't impact it.

Yes to magical boobs and enchanted fannies!

Oh I love confraggle! But I can't stand starting off meetings with " the redisperization..."