What words or manner of speaking would you like to see gone?

I didn't mind when I was younger, although my mother always told me that people who use such words don't have the intelligence to express themselves properly. I think it's laziness, too. We hear words like that all over the television, in the movies, in books, newspapers and other outlets. It's as if they are part of everyday language and it's really sad.

I too don't like bad language though I use it. I was doing quite well for awhile. Though when I'm angry I can't think fast enough to come up with alternatives for those to express how I feel. Laziness is also a factor I guess.

I haven't heard that one but it would get old very quickly! The prevalence of of text-speak generally irritates me, particularly when people write "u" rather than "you" and other abbreviations. In fact, the entire English language is deteriorating from texting, it seems.

It seems as if the wicked people have decided that we should not offend them. I think with the Lord's Name in vain, it is not honoring God and not giving Him the glory. The actions of theft, and the clergyman who joins a holy order in order to get more boys to molest is the result, not the start of taking the Lord's name in vain as if cursing and other verbal insults. After all, once one blasphemes God, it is easier to have the incentive of doing these other things. Maybe we should have those political correctors who want to change "Deck the Halls" to not make those weak cry baby homosexuals to feel better, write every carol out by hand very neatly of every Carol book. I am sure there are thousands or rather millions of them to go around. Aren't I mean?

PC can be pretty ridiculous these days. I heard this last Christmas season that children singing "Deck the Halls" had to say "don we now our warm apparel" instead of "don we now our gay apparel". Absolutely insane! I would also like to see people quit taking the Lord's name in vain but that extends so much further than words. For example, when a man of the cloth molests a child that is taking the Lord's name in vain as he is supposed to represent God. People who steal money from charities are also guilty of taking His name in vain as they are supposedly doing the Lord's work. But to your point, yes, I would love to see those curse words gone. It cheapens us as human beings and showcases our lack of gratitude and intelligence.

"At this moment", "at this time" or even just plain old "now"...

My mother used to say the exact same thing! "Your children are not baby goats!" I also agree with "at this point in time". It makes me think that they are trying to sound grander and more articulate than they actually are. I also think 24/7 has run its course even though I'm guilty of using it occasionally.

I was surprised at a lot of the words on the list because I'd never heard of many of them. Words usually don't bother me but when they are used by everyone at every opportunity they do get a bit old. Talking in questions is one example of a technique that was originally meant to be dramatic but that turned into a trend, lost its effectiveness, and is now just ridiculous. But it's a great way to run out the clock if you're being interviewed and want to dodge some questions!

Some things aren't worth keeping but are repeated so often in the media that they stick like spaghetti thrown against a wall. Sometimes I think we're little better than parrots repeated what we hear and thinking it's cool.

Is that what it's called? Have I ever heard of that term? No, I don't think I have. Does the technique make me want to grab the speaker and choke the life out of them? Yes!

I agree with you about the f word. It's used so commonly nowadays that it has lost all its shock value and no longer has any impact to speak of but it's such an ugly sounding word, even divorced from its intended carnal reference. Yes, "the bottom line" has become irritating and "have a good day" is merely a variable of the "have a nice day" of the 70's. Can you believe a phrase has been around more than 40 years?! And an insipid, insincere phrase at that! I just though of one more--"how are you?" People ask it and rarely mean it. I listen to radio all day and hear people say "how are you? I think that....". See, they don't even wait for an answer usually because they don't mean it, it's just a knee-jerk reaction to being greeted. I have answered people by saying, "I'm great, thanks!" and they look bewildered until I tell them that they did ask how I was, after all.

"You know" is very irritating! But it's so much a part of the language now. People use it every few words, it seems, and no, I don't know or you would not be tellng me!! I think people use "per se" in an effort to appear knowledgeable but to those of us who know what it means it has the opposite effect. I find that a lot of misuse of words also occurs in the media. Even on national news shows they misuse words. I heard a commercial a few months ago that is still running where the narrator said "You'll be shocked on how fabulous the selection is!" I considered emailing them and telling them I'd never shop at a store that hires such inarticulate representatives but saved myself the effort--it would not matter to them. They are speaking to the public at large which seems to be lacking basic knowledge of the grammar and has a very limited vocabulary.

Well, you know we must keep up the good fight per se.

I agree with you both, I would love to see that word gone. I think the problem is that people don't really know what it was like when that word was in common use. I was born in 1954 and heard it often when I was young. My mother and her family despised it while my dad's family used it regularly. I grew up thinking of it as a very, very bad word. And when I became aware of the attitude with which it was used, it was even more offensive. Today the word seems to be merely a word and people who hear it have a knee-jerk reaction of oh, that's awful and that's not right. But they don't really KNOW the demeaning nature of it, the rabid scorn with which it was used in bygone days, the hatred that made it such a horrifying word. It has lost its meaning, especially now that it has been incorporated into "art" and culture. That's really sad. Soon, if things keep going like this, it will become a word like any other. Some people might think that would be good but in my opinion it robs us of a time in human history that we should never forget, lest we repeat it.

I prefer if that word gets eradicated rather than become decrepit, because it's obvious that the weaker it becomes doesn't destroy it. I have noticed it as well, so many movies now incorporates such language in them and I am starting to find it disturbing. It hurts even more when you see a child under 12 is on the cast of a movie and that child is the one saying it. The limits to movies now a days is being destroyed to the point even a 8 year old can curse bad word in a movie and they, the writers, find it amusing.

I am black and I would like to hear that word gone as well. As I observe my surrounding I notice that sometimes it is us black people that is calling it down on ourselves. I just look and you hear how the word is used among us without any problem, there isn't even a flinch when one black refers to another as that. The problems starts when another race does it, so I became confuse.

I think those works will go away when the conditions that they describe do. I remember when the word "gnarly" was popular and how glad I was when it went out of fashion. Another irritating word that is, hopefully, on the way out is "sick" to describe something that someone thinks is great. I always feel like I'm getting old and out of touch when I say things like that because I remember how my elders criticized my choices of words and phrases as a teen and young adult. But they do get irritating as one gets older and gains more appreciation for language and grammar.

Of course it's not an actual ban, just a wish! I do agree about media-coined words. It's irritating how each faction picks them up rapidly and within a day you can hear it on every radio and TV station and also in the printed and internet media. One of the buzzwords I dislike is "Obama-phone". I do not like inaccuracies in the media and the free cell phones are from a program started by former president Bush, not Obama. That is just one example of how the media manipulates through words. Buzzwords and catchphrases are the tools of people too lazy to be original.

I'm all for that! It would be a much nicer world.

I don't hear swag as much but I've heard a lot of "yolo" in its longer form. I wish people would think for themselves and not use buzz words. It would make conversation so much more interesting!

That is quite a lot of pet peeves! I remember when I was young I was taught that I should speak correctly and mind my grammar. Correct spelling was also emphasized because if someone is forming an impression of you through your writing you want it to be favorable. It seems as if people don't care much about that anymore.