Comments on: PCN’s Banished Words

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:42:12 +0000

Count me in!

By: le0pard13

le0pard13 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:03:43 +0000

I second this! My mother got on me whenever I uttered that one in her presence.

By: Paulette

Paulette — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:29 +0000

Why not bring back “bitchen?” I was not allowed to say this word as a child and feel that I missed out completely! So, really bitchen list and discussion, PCN!

By: Cris

Cris — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:37:59 +0000

I’m glad you did this. I was recently thinking of how much “baby bump” pisses me off. Why can’t she just be pregnant, or “she’s beginning to show”? Baby bump sounds like something that requires vaccination. Please retire it! Another one is ” threw me/him/her/us/them under the bus”. Why are folks being thrown under buses? Can we get back to the good ol days of simply getting screwed? At least that one has a fun double meaning.

By: Leanne

Leanne — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:33:42 +0000

I’m thinking of the word ‘like’. Teenage girls seem to especially love this word, as they use it multiple times in one sentence! “Like, it was just like totally amazing, and like it just went off!!”

Or ‘kinda’. “It was kinda hot today.”
Or ‘gonna’. “I’m gonna kick his a**.”

By: Poncho

Poncho — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:43:09 +0000

Ha! We sort of do that in Mexico too… well, not in Mexico City, but the state of Guanajuato (about 3 hours north), a lot of towns have “hybrid” names:
Guanajuato – Guanawashington
Irapuato (where my family lives) – Irapittsburgh
Salamanca – Salamanchester
Celaya – Celayork

At first, it was fun, but then it became really annoying.

By: Poncho

Poncho — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:33:09 +0000

I love how britons say “brilliant”. Does it count?

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:00:06 +0000

Ugh. I don’t like Vegas so I can understand your aversion to being called BrisVegas. That sounds so tacky. I like Brissie. Can you use that to describe a resident of Brisbane?

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:57:20 +0000

I didn’t know that about “lurve.” (I saw Annie Hall too long ago.) Thank goodness I haven’t come across it much until now.

I also don’t hear too often those phrases you mentioned. I guess you’re more environmentally aware than we are down here?

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:53:29 +0000

How about these as alternatives for “awesome”? Magnificent, spectacular, wonderful, stunning, impressive.

I’m going to start calling people “hoser,” whether they deserve it or not. Let’s get this movement started!