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One word we should stop using in 2014 - Falsalm - 01-02-2014 04:46 PM What's one word we should stop saying this new year? One word we should stop using in 2014 - James Comey - 01-02-2014 04:54 PM Swag. And perhaps "gay" when it doesn't mean homosexual. One word we should stop using in 2014 - Gwedin - 01-02-2014 05:29 PM Also: Faggot and retard. One word we should stop using in 2014 - James Comey - 01-02-2014 05:31 PM Or perhaps we should go with the definition of "faggot" that South Park wishes for us to adopt. RE: One word we should stop using in 2014 - Falsalm - 01-02-2014 05:44 PM Yolo RE: One word we should stop using in 2014 - no - 01-05-2014 01:31 AM Adult. One word we should stop using in 2014 - Ky - 01-05-2014 06:30 AM I think we should keep gay, faggot, and (especially) retard, due to their colloquial uses. There's always the hope that those terms will no longer be used to refer to what they did originally (much the same way "idiot" or "moron" did). I also use "swag" and "yolo" occasionally, because it's fun to say them ironically. Of all of the words suggested, I'm the most in favor of voting out the term "adult". Wipe it from every dictionary if need be. RE: One word we should stop using in 2014 - brainiac3397 - 01-05-2014 04:25 PM Ill use adulterate as an alternative. The adulterates...adulterated...adulteration. Quite fitting in a variety of instances, non? One word we should stop using in 2014 - Ky - 01-05-2014 04:41 PM I would prefer a term for them that does not involve sexual connotations. Then again, I doubt such a term exists for anything. RE: One word we should stop using in 2014 - brainiac3397 - 01-05-2014 04:50 PM Adultery is not the same as adulterate. One word we should stop using in 2014 - Ky - 01-05-2014 04:53 PM Doesn't matter, it's in my head now. From now on, the prefix or even word "adult" will be mentally replaced with the connotations of an adulterer, or foolish sex-crazed person in general. RE: One word we should stop using in 2014 - Subb - 01-05-2014 04:54 PM I made a thread about "Retard." Keep using it. Please. Though, "Gay" and "Faggot" are not as far along as "Retard" in becoming a generic insult. I would say that "Gay" should only be used as another term for "Homosexual," and it'll problably be best not to use the word "Faggot." Not until the South Park definition takes hold. Anyway, the word I would ban is "Bigot." The left is using that term way too much. It's losing it's weight, to the point where convervatives are using it as a sort of medal of honor. "I worn that liberal down so much that he called me a bigot! That idiot can't defend his Dear Leader, Obummer!" It's better to just trash it and move on to real discussion. One word we should stop using in 2014 - Ky - 01-05-2014 04:56 PM It's funny because the liberals that use the word "bigot" the most actually tend to resemble that word more than their opponents, in more the "stubborn" than "racist" sense of the definition. Although I suppose an argument could be made that they have racist policies... Anyway, I would say "bigot" is the word to ban.