If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
As a non believer in censoring peoples language, as freedom of expression, is tantamount to freedom to be yourself. Without full and free language expression, there is a loss of expressive identity. However something that could very well do with being banned from language is the use of the grunt uh huh. It is lazy language, akin to an epidemic of non verbal linguistucs that causes the person to limt there use of language to express their understanding of a situation or what is heard. Banning this use would in expoentially improve the language skills of people. Of this I have no doubt.