What one word could you do without?

[Beware the Beast Man]

DUers, what one word in the English language could you do without?

Here are the guidelines, to make it more interesting:
1. No curse words. These are an easy mark.
2. Same applies to ethnic and racial slurs. Again way too easy to eliminate these.
3. Anyhting word we use around here to apply to Right-wing politics, such as bush, fundie, freeper, terra, conservative, etc.

Example- pantaloons

Good luck!

[Misunderestimator]

1. Bush

Oh sorry... you said no curse words. :D

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. heheh- read rule # 3 too.

I'm making this very difficult!

[Misunderestimator]

4. Well darn... see how I don't pay attention?

:D

[Search Party]

3. terra

terra this, terra that

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. Read rule #3!!!!!

:grr: no one's following the rules!!!

[Misunderestimator]

7. See... it's not just me!!

:bounce:

[Search Party]

8. Fine! Then I'll go with:

literally

[Beware the Beast Man]

12. Great choice!

I literally blow my top when someone uses that word incorrectly. :crazy:

[Hawkeye-X]

6. Two words

Inmate

Felons.

[LanternWaste]

9. Vitriol

"Vitriol"

Was that word in Newt's list? It's gotta have been! Almost every LTTE written by neocon/traditional-con in the past ten years uses that word in place of "criticism" when bringing up points made by Dem's.

Second on the list (and it invariably precedes "Vitriol" Every Single Time) is "Spew". My eyes have grown accustomed to seeing the phrase, "...spew vitriol" in LTTE and editorials before I read the article in question and I can almost always predict that it will be one eye-roller of a piece... :eyes:

[LanternWaste]

15. Damn that Rule #3!!!

Damn that Rule #3!!! x(

O-kay... Nipply (as used in sentence... "It's quite nipply out here today")

or

Phat, (Yo, he's got a Phat car!")

or

Dude

still hate "Vitriol" and "spew" worse... :P

[Misunderestimator]

10. In honor of Will Pitt.... MEME

[Commendatori]

11. "The bomb," as in "His car is the bomb," "that movie was the bomb," etc.

I'm usually pretty mellow, but when I hear a teen say that I want to throttle the peanuts and corn out of the little shithead. I can't explain why it bothers me to such a degree, but what I do know is that it sounds like a pathetic attempt to be cool.

[yellowcanine]

13. "Frankly" - go ahead and be frank if you want - just don't tell me you

about it ahead of time. Usually it means you are going to say something to advance your agenda and you are trying to convince me that you are just such a straight shooter (while we are at it, another term I am not fond of) that you just can't help yourself, so therefore if I take any offence, it is somehow MY problem. Frankly it pisses me off.

[Richardo]

14. Yes. And 'clearly'.

as in: "Clearly, I must think I'm more observant and smarter than you are."

[69KV]

16. Was going to say "meme"

But somebody beat me to it.

How about "team-building". Gawd what a bogus concept.

[Scout Finch]

17. I could do without....

"Whatever." It means absolutely nothing.

[redqueen]

18. "Irregardless"

:grr:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

23. Is that a word?

:evilgrin:

[Misunderestimator]

24. Yes it is... just like misunderestimate :)

[redqueen]

25. Oh don't get me started!

The answer is no, but now it's in dictionaries as an irregular word or some such crap.

Bleargh!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

27. It's in unabridged dictionaries

where we accomodate people who never bothered to learn the rules of grammar, such as the concept of a double negative.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

19. Hate

Just imagine how the world would be if the concept of hatred weren't alive and well.

[Beware the Beast Man]

21. DIng Ding Ding Ding!!!!

It took 19 posts for someone to finally post "hate"?

[Misunderestimator]

22. Damn... she always wins at these

reindeer games :)

[redqueen]

26. Yeah no kidding...

*sigh*

[Kid_A]

20. "Like"

It, like, really annoys me the way people, like, always stick that word into their sentences, like, two or three times without even, like, realizing they're doing it.

I want to, like, strangle them. Like.

[mtnester]

28. "Dude"

That word just irritates the crap out of me.

[Mr. McD]

29. Can't

It should be removed from the English language.

[mtnester]

30. HAH, I see a hateful sentence from some of the words so far

"Like, Dude, whatever"

I HEAR that sentence I swear all the dang time.

[skygazer]

31. "Normalcy"

I simply despise those made up words that enter the mainstream and get used to death. 'No-brainer' is right up there too.

[Tredge]

32. I'll take "booya!" please Alex

:headbang:

[LWolf]

33. Testscores

I'm sure that's a compound word. ;-)

[Lavender Brown]

34. "just"

When it's used as a filler word in place of "um." That just really annoys me.