/lit/ - Literature

>the

pretty much all americanisms in the english language. none of them make sense.

The verb to be.

Smart/Green/all marketing buzzwords
irregardless

The phrase 'tour de force'

>>4682904
I do completely agreeing with you.

>>4682901
:^)

>>4682918
Are you attempting not to use the verb to be? "I completely agree with you" is a perfect sentence, brah.

>>4682904
To be or not to be?

>>4682924
The point came into this space to illustrate how writing would manifest itself without any derivative of the great infinitive.

>per se
>enormous
>et cetera
>zesty
>freedoms

The phrase "already a classic".

Fedora
Edgy
Hipster
Vaporwave (almost all "[something]wave")
Post-modern
Pretentious
Exciting (only the present continuous)

>>4682901
Americanisms such as what?

>>4682975
Definitely 'pretentious'. I don't know if I just grew up, or if some weird event happened to spark this, but it feels like this has become the word people go to when they want to criticise art without actually putting in the effort to explain what it is they dislike. It's so lazy.

>>4682872
>banning words
>mfw

dialectical
*-complex

>>4683048
Minderwertigkeitskomplex is one of the finest mouthfeels in existence

>it's like if

Ban ALL the words!

>solvable

>>4682933
but that's another thing

>gotten

Absolutely disgusting

Ban the word "God".

This way, whenever people try to describe something like it, it will magically draw a blank in their heads. And whoever calls himself atheist will be left wondering whatever was that thing they thought they didn't believe in it.

>>4683149
>it will magically draw a blank in their heads.
>yfw fantasy would just fill the void of all religions with magic
>yfw you were the first

>>4683149
Banning a word isn't the same as banning a concept.

>>4683048
>dialectical

>>4683180
shit, i have to re-read Schopenhauer on Hegel.

>plethora

euphoric

>>4683048
I don't think I can even conceive of the amount of times I've heard dialectic and not understood it in its contextual usage.

>>4682872

>whale (as an adjective, the noun is fine)

>>4682975

Also _______core and post-________. Nothing good comes out of words following these structures.

>>4683149

>>4682872

Anything 'ghetto' speak or ghetto related and those 'new words' like 'selfie' and all that shit that catch on with normalfags in everyday conversation.

>>4682975
But vaporwave is the first genre of music to explicitly reference Marx in its concept.

>>4683260

>being this pretentious
>being this stupid about linguistics

I'm sorry son, we'll have to put him down. I know Sparky was a good neckbeard, but it's just his time in life.

>>4683275

Sparky no!

Paradigm
Praxis
Postcolonial
Vocality
Contemporaneity

>>4682904
I'd ban the verb to do.
>I want that not
becomes
>I do not want that
But fucking why?

I would also ban all the overused adverbs. Literally all the adverbs. (kek)

>>4682975
>Exciting
Why though? I get the rest, especially all the epik memes, but why exciting?

>>4682975
>>>/mu/

SJW
hugbox
otherkin

>>4683401
No real rational reason. I hate this expression. Probably because of the people who tend to overuse it.
>>4683446
>>>/you'remom/

>>4683492
>otherkin
>check yer privelage

feels

>>4683517
Have you ever checked your privilege tho

>>4683149
>Ban God
>I believe in Jesus Christ's father
>I believe in Mohammad
>I believe in hating people who believe in the previous

I'd ban the word "an" because i fucking hate that word.

DEATH TO ALL MODIFIERS

The word "feast" has always bothered me, don't know why.

>>4682872
>thus
>the masses

>>4683638
No. Actually, I don't have as many privileges as I'd like to.

gumption

>>4683679
what about "a feast for the eyes"?

>>4683272
if it has a written concept it's not an authentic genre.

>>4682933
>>4683134
Russian has no "to be" equivalent, and they seem to be getting along ok.

>>4683378
It's the best part of our language and why all other sound like some old fogey grandpa pants talk. Why not go all the way and remove every word not native to english?

http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/Headside

>>4686187
I guess this is probably well known around here, but here's an essay about Atomic Theory without Germanic words.
>http://msburkeenglish.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/uncleftish-beholding-aka-atomic-theory.pdf

>>4686182
>pent up frustration causes you to intermittently invade neighboring countries

>>4682872
"selfie"

EURGH. I started to hate myself a little bit just saying it then.

''loli''

>>4686344
My name is Humbert Humbert and I do not approve of this message.

Ideology

>>4686215
Well, yeah, but the foundational usage of "to be" doesn't seem to hinder that behavior among English speakers, either.

Accidental

>funner

ennui

any awkward usage of slang not native to one's own culture

>I just really, really hate it when Americans Anglicize their speech to sound more cultured or interesting
>guys from Ohio who say "come up to my flat, love"

>>4686182
They have a 'be' verb, they just don't use it as much.

>>4683378
because dummy tense-bearing auxiliaries built on examples of the more canonical "have" and "be" auxiliaries

>>4682938
I would ban only the pronunciation of "et cetera" as "exetera".

>>4686057
that's a great word though

I nominate "within". I've had to edit too many of my sister's crappy essays to realize that most people lack the stylistic nuance to differentiate "within" and "in".

melty