To want to ban the use of certain words

At a meeting to display the plans for a particularly dominating and aggressive building that is up for planning permission near me, the developer, when asked a perfectly straightforward and practical question about it, waffled that it was a portal. Portal to what? A portal is a gateway and this thing didn't lead anywhere but to itself.

'Looking to' as in 'Are you looking to sell your car/go on holiday/get a lodger...?'

No! I may be thinking about it, or hoping to do it but I'm not looking to anything.

Youse guys
See ya later
No probs
Devastated for a bit upset

'Can I get...?' as in 'Can I get a coffee?' It's 'Could I have...?' (I blame 'Friends')
Community
Community leader
Key as in 'key worker' or 'key stage'
Heritage
Pacifically when specifically is meant
Fun as an adjective as in 'We had a fun time.' It's 'We had fun.' Or 'We had an enjoyable time.'
And anything politically correct of course.

I'm good ( when asking someone how they are ).

" To be honest"
" At the end of the day"
" And stuff like that"
" Know what I mean?"

And many more........

And, incidentally, I still remember our P.3 teacher telling us that we should NEVER use the word "get", and that there was always a proper alternative!

On my local news at the moment: "my thought and prayers go out...." .

Learning curve

And the widespread use of the word kid/s. What happened to the lovely words child or children? Why call them after young goats? They might just as well be lambs, calves or foals.

Only.

'Blue sky thinking', and all the rest of corporate speech. Used to play b#llsh#t bingo at office meetings and crossed off each of the nonsense phrases as they were spouted.

Daddima I well remember our English teacher making us rewrite sentences to avoid the use of 'get'. It still irritates me when I hear the almost ubiquitous 'can I get'.

Well, 2old some of them do have nannies!

I hate 'those ones'. (When the word those will do on its own). also the fashion of changing nouns into adjectives by adding 'ing' as with 'concerning' meaning 'cause for concern' (as opposed to 'about'). EG. His actions were very concerning, instead of His actions were a cause for concern, or His actions were disconcerting.

Pre-order.
Surely it's just order?

'Hard working families', used in every other sentence by all too many politicians. Can't they think of another cliché to invent?

The massive sales near us are like that NfkDumpling. There's nothing massive about size 8 or 10. My DH complained that massive sales were always small sizes until he lost weight. Suddenly, the sale sizes were all the size he was previously.?

Pan fried! What else do people fry in?

It's presumably just to make frying acceptable again in the same way as Kentucky FRIED Chicken is now KFC.

'I have to say'. Why do you have to say? Why not just say it?

"Resting" when used on menus, for example "resting on a bed of creamed spinach"

I don't want to eat tired food!

And what's more, phoenix, it does rather imply that whatever is 'resting' is not actually dead...

indeed, Ana

But at least it's resting on a bed

Please may I add the horror which has me shouting at the tv/radio at the moment - "Here are the headlines this hour ....." (or similar). "This hour"?????? No, no, no.

And what's more, phoenix, it does rather imply that whatever is 'resting' is not actually dead.

what's the emoticon for giggle?
rofl