If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
There are so many words to choose from, and many reasons to ban one, but I honestly couldn’t think of one that I would personally choose to ban from “general usage”.
This is likely due to the fact that I am a white male in the USA who does not have to worry about words having significant meaning to me culturally regardless of positive or negative connotation. So, on a serious level, I would have to defer to others that have been situations or live every day with disparaging and hateful words hanging over them.
On a comedic level I’m sure I could pick out a word and ban it from “general usage” so that people stop using it outside of the correct context, like the word cake for example. I’m not sure what word out there this could apply to, but I’m sure there is one that would lead to absolutely silly results as people try to figure out how to describe things again. That could be a good time.