If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?

Hi, word troll here.

A ban on words? Yikes.

“It was a pleasure to burn.”

That’s my favorite opening line of any of the books I’ve read, and the book itself is really good. Google it. Read it. Then answer this question. Look up Newspeak while you’re at it. If you are already familiar with the idea and it doesn’t terrify you, that’s a little scary, too.

The dystopian genre is my number one favorite, but that doesn’t mean I’d like to live in a dystopian society. Or are we just looking to replace the words we don’t like or find appropriate?

Words are powerful. All of them should be used with great care and some kept to ourselves. But take one away from societal use and it will be replaced. Shoot, they get replaced all the time, then the new ones get demonized, then replaced, and on and on.

Es un circulo vicioso.

As far as warping the usage, I’m not a fan, but the evolution of language is inevitable outside of tyranny.