What words should be banned?

dots03 · 13-06-2020 4:52pm

Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft

I'm a lover of German...but come on Kumpels...seriously?

13-06-2020 4:54pm

Hamsterchops wrote: »

That's quite a statement, but it's not true.

My Mother is my Mum, my wife is Mum/ Mummy to our children, and most of their school friends are Mums to their children too...
On saying that, we have noticed a bit of MoM creeping into the what's app groups in recent years :cool:

That whole Irish Mammy thing annoys me.
Hope you're listening Ryan Tubridy.

You’re wrong though. Anyone using Mum in this country is.

Ma, Mam, or Mammy.

13-06-2020 4:56pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Frontline "heroes".

Fair enough for HSE staff actually caring for sick but it is such a throwaway term, even a drain unblocker or a burger flipper at Maccas is a "hero" now.

Definitely that one. Everyone driving a van or frying a few chips thought they were superman. I worked all the way through it myself and I’m as far away from a hero as you’d find.

Tony EH · 13-06-2020 4:59pm

I don't really think any words should be banned.

But...if I absolutely had to choose one, it would be "copacetic".

:mad:

Hamsterchops · 13-06-2020 5:24pm

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

You’re wrong though. Anyone using Mum in this country is.

Ma, Mam, or Mammy.

Might be a hearing issue?

Capt'n Midnight · 14-06-2020 2:29pm

Tony EH wrote: »

I don't really think any words should be banned.

Except the name of the guy who burnt down the Temple of Diana on July 21st 356 BC.

CBear1993 · 14-06-2020 2:33pm

The south dublin brigade saying “jars” when referring to meeting up for a few pints

L'prof · 14-06-2020 3:08pm

tayto lover wrote: »

Oh and also “Your round” even though there’s two words in it.

You really shouldn’t have to be told :pac:

filbert the fox · 16-06-2020 10:42am

"Guys...." for both sexes

"Asterix" for this symbol *

"Scripture" OMG

Oh yeh, and "Muppets" to describe anything other than those really CLEVER puppets.

FVP3 · 23-06-2020 1:34pm

Seamai wrote: »

"SO" When using it at the start of of a sentence, when did that become a thing? Tony Holohan and a few of his colleagues at the DOH press briefings seem to be incapable of starting a reply to a question without "So"
!

Decades ago, in Ireland.

Tommybojangles · 23-06-2020 1:47pm

Toxic

Gwynplaine · 23-06-2020 2:50pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Non-national.

They dont call an Amatuer a "non-professional".
Dont tell me what it's not, tell me what it is. In this case, a foreigner.

Lewis_Benson · 23-06-2020 3:21pm

"Revert"
Because no one knows how to use it correctly in a sentence.

Rodney Bathgate · 23-06-2020 3:23pm

Curate

Montage of Feck · 23-06-2020 3:26pm

Charlie19 wrote: »

Kunt spelled with a C.

I wish I could erase it from my vocabulary, it really is a horrible word.

But the that's the point, that it is a horrible word.

Montage of Feck · 23-06-2020 3:31pm

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

America has both with all the variations in between those extremes. Apparently the lighter skinned black people (like the first photo) can experience prejudice from the darker skinned black people.

Got a light skinned friend look like Michael Jackson, got a dark skinned friend look like Michael Jackson.

ShatterAlan · 23-06-2020 4:25pm

Randy Archer wrote: »

Hater : nonsense word that gets used and abused ,when one criticises or argues a view that may be unpopular , especially of that view is an informed one .

Salty : do I really need to explain that one ?

There’s a plethora of words that should be not used in sports, especially American sports commentary eg “greatest of all time” , “best ever” ,”my top 10” .... often referring to sports people that have done little to merit the accolades /or such achievements aren’t seriously assessed or the quality of their opponents . UFC and especially Joe Rogan is a hoor for it . Likewise NBA coverage ,it’s hard to listen to

You hear some right crap from American sports commentators.

"That makes the Mets the winningest team this season so far." Just nonsense.

Oftentimes is another stupid one. It's another Americanism that some numpty started using and it spread, depsite the fact that it doesn't stand up when used in a different context. Normally people put it at the start of a sentence e.g.

"Oftentimes I go to the shop and they are sold out of bread"

Try putting it in a question and it just falls flat. Instead of asking:

"How often do you go to the cinema?"

Try

"How oftentimes do you go to the cinema?"

Doesn't quite work, does it?

Rodney Bathgate · 23-06-2020 4:30pm

Montage of Feck wrote: »

But the that's the point, that it is a horrible word.

Kernts.

NSAman · 23-06-2020 4:32pm

Racist... cause everyone is according to some sections of society. It has lost its value at this stage.

ShatterAlan · 23-06-2020 5:06pm

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

The word '' black'' to describe people in US. African Americans are very light skinned compared in reality. Compared to parts of African that have never seen a caucasian person.

The term African-American is one that I can't agree with either. It's like a black person is automatically "American"

If Paul McGrath, Jonah Lomu, Pele and Paul Pogba were to walk down a street in the US people would describe them as "Four African American individuals"

There's not an American bone in their bodies and they're not African either.

ILoveYourVibes · 23-06-2020 5:08pm

Something that people use everyday ....like ...'the' ..it would be so funny...

is_that_so · 23-06-2020 5:09pm

ShatterAlan wrote: »

The term African-American is one that I can't agree with either. It's like a black person is automatically "American"

If Paul McGrath, Jonah Lomu, Pele and Paul Pogba were to walk down a street in the US people would describe them as "Four African American individuals"

There's not an American bone in their bodies and they're not African either.

Well, Lomu would technically be a zombie!

Quantum Erasure · 23-06-2020 5:14pm

^didn't that model face a backlash for blacking-up, / using photoshop to appear darker than she was?

Quantum Erasure · 23-06-2020 5:15pm

"you have been banned"

Quantum Erasure · 23-06-2020 5:19pm

biko wrote: »

"Challenge" when you're too PC to say "Problem".

problematic

Tony EH · 23-06-2020 5:20pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

problematic

and challenging.

Conall Cernach · 23-06-2020 5:24pm

"Absolutely".

Every fecker seems to use this all the time especially when asked a question on RTE or TV3. I don't think it is so universal in the UK.

Q: The Greens are divided on this.
A: Absolutely.

Just say "Yes". It seems to have become more prevalent in the last few years or maybe once I noticed it being used all the time I notice it all the more.

I Am Nobody · 23-06-2020 5:34pm

The word Hey,when someone is addressing you.I have a name you fcuk-knuckle and it's not Hey.

Tony EH · 23-06-2020 6:28pm

I Am Nobody wrote: »

The word Hey,when someone is addressing you.I have a name you fcuk-knuckle and it's not Hey.

What if they don't know your name?

Also, "hey" is the modern form of "hail", which has been around for centuries if not millennia. It's a very polite form of greeting.

Quantum Erasure · 23-06-2020 6:37pm

hard to know which thread in CA to throw this in to, so i'll just put it here...

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/06/scrabble-players-debate-slurs.html

What started with a call last week for the Scrabble community to support Black Lives Matter led to a proposal by leadership of the North American Scrabble Players Association to eliminate slurs—about 80 in all, plus alternate spellings and inflections, for a total of 238 words—from the master list of words that are permissible in club and tournament play.

“I have felt for a long time that there are some words in our lexicon that we hang onto in the mistaken belief that our spelling them with tiles on a board strips them of their power to cause harm,” NASPA’s chief executive, John Chew, wrote to the group’s 11-member advisory board. “When we play a slur, we are declaring that our desire to score points in a word game is of more value to us than the slur’s broader function as a way to oppress a group of people. I don’t think that this is the time for us to be contributing divisively to the world’s problems.”

The words range from obvious and common aspersions to ones unfamiliar to most people (BOHUNK, HAOLE, CULCHIE) to others they might be surprised to learn have a disparaging meaning (JESUIT, PAPIST). A few don’t always carry a monitory label in dictionaries (GRAYBEARD, JAILBAIT). Some familiar ones didn’t make the list because they have other, inoffensive meanings (BITCH).

GrumpyMe · 23-06-2020 6:56pm

Mindful

ILoveYourVibes · 23-06-2020 7:46pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

^didn't that model face a backlash for blacking-up, / using photoshop to appear darker than she was?

You mean like a fake tan?

GinSoaked · 23-06-2020 9:58pm

Any words after #

Randy Archer · 24-06-2020 11:03am

“Cultural appropriation”

****ing hell . So they want us to disregard their “culture” as oppose to embrace it ? Funny how plenty of African Africans “culturally appropriate”/embrace white man culture once they get out of the ghetto , yo ie suits ,membership of golf clubs ,staying out of jail etc (For the eternally outraged , this is a joke) You know Jay Z

Hell, some high profile black Americans Like Wacko Jackson, Little Kim, and Beyoncé have lightened their skin tone

As annoying as the Yanks bastardising our culture eg St Patrick’s Day and Halloween or the European Christmas or replacing bunnies with Holy stuff at Easter ,we don’t get too pissy. We take it as a compliment

MOH · 24-06-2020 11:36am

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

hard to know which thread in CA to throw this in to, so i'll just put it here...

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/06/scrabble-players-debate-slurs.html

That's totally ridiculous - surely Jesuit is already banned as a proper noun?

AngryLoner · 24-06-2020 11:59am

biko wrote: »

"Challenge" when you're too PC to say "Problem".

HAHAHA, "No challenge", instead of "No problem".... runs through my head everyday thanks to that Louis Theroux doc

Galwayguy35 · 24-06-2020 12:17pm

Toxic masculinity.

In fairness I only ever hear Roe McDermott use it but she somehow always manages to squeze it in every time she is on the radio.

Although seeing as she is the sister of Eoghan McDermott, the guy who wanted to ban Fairytale of New York means being annoying must in the family.

randd1 · 24-06-2020 1:13pm

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Toxic masculinity.

In fairness I only ever hear Roe McDermott use it but she somehow always manages to squeze it in every time she is on the radio.

Although seeing as she is the sister of Eoghan McDermott, the guy who wanted to ban Fairytale of New York means being annoying must in the family.

No nepotism there at all.

melonstar · 24-06-2020 1:30pm

I hate when parents call their children "smallies".
Makes my blood boil.

Also, the word "solidarity" is overused on Twitter and makes me cringe.

PoisonIvyBelle · 24-06-2020 1:31pm

It's not even a bloody word, but don't get me started on "BAE".

G'way outta that.

pidgeoneyes · 24-06-2020 1:33pm

"Going forward"

banie01 · 24-06-2020 1:40pm

Banning words or their use smacks of 21st century iconoclasm to me and that hasn't worked out well in any of the other centuries it's kicked off in

Yes certain words are loaded, yes certain groups assign an inordinate amount of outrage to those words.

It would be far more productive for those groups however to work on changing hearts and minds of those who do deliberately provoke their outrage, than it would be to change dictionaries.

Language isn't static, nor should attitudes to its usage be.
Much like the fight of some to reappropriate words to remove their power, it should really be remembered that no matter how debased the language a person uses is...

One does not need to take offence at it, it is often far better to meet hate with an effort to educate and correct.
Not to enforce censorship.

Thelonious Monk · 24-06-2020 1:51pm

It's 3 words but "I know right?" is creeping very quickly into Ireland, don't encourage it!

na1 · 24-06-2020 2:10pm

non-binary

Galwayguy35 · 24-06-2020 3:38pm

Gender fluid.

ShatterAlan · 24-06-2020 3:53pm

is_that_so wrote: »

Well, Lomu would technically be a zombie!

Or a god

filbert the fox · 24-06-2020 4:03pm

banie01 wrote: »

Banning words or their use smacks of 21st century iconoclasm to me and that hasn't worked out well in any of the other centuries it's kicked off in

Yes certain words are loaded, yes certain groups assign an inordinate amount of outrage to those words.

It would be far more productive for those groups however to work on changing hearts and minds of those who do deliberately provoke their outrage, than it would be to change dictionaries.

Language isn't static, nor should attitudes to its usage be.
Much like the fight of some to reappropriate words to remove their power, it should really be remembered that no matter how debased the language a person uses is...

One does not need to take offence at it, it is often far better to meet hate with an effort to educate and correct.
Not to enforce censorship.

Ahem! After Hours after all....not to be taken too seriously, K? (hate that too)

After hours is the place to come on boards where general discussion can be light-hearted. The aim here is to have a bit of a laugh and not to piss anybody off while doing so.

Yester · 24-06-2020 7:29pm

Omission. I'm not sure if it should be banned but it should defiantly be left out.

GinSoaked · 24-06-2020 7:31pm

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Gender fluid.

Unfortunately my rather distressing mind thinks of male and female fluids when ever those words are mentioned.

Galwayguy35 · 24-06-2020 7:38pm

GinSoaked wrote: »

Unfortunately my rather distressing mind thinks of male and female fluids when ever those words are mentioned.

Another made up term for a generation of confused people.

What words should be banned?

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