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

Words exist to give names to things, whether they are good or bad. Some words exist in one language to describe something that, in other languages, would take an entire phrase. Some words describe negative things or emotions. Examples include war, hatred, discrimination, and hunger. We can’t ban these words. We would still need other words to describe the same negative situation. There are beautiful words like love, peace, compassion, and solidarity. There are also words that do not yet exist in our vocabulary. This is simply because what they would describe has not yet been discovered. Or it hasn’t been invented. We can’t ban words, because if we did, they would quickly be replaced by others. Words in every language are the mutual agreement that society establishes to name everything.

So, the word I pick to answer this question is: Impossible

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