Please stop using this word

Existential.

I see this word in writing and in speech a couple of dozen times a day, sometime twice in the same paragraph. It is an adjective that usually adds nothing to the statement being made. It has become a crutch, a cliche as overused as describing any random event as “surreal.”

Please stop using it. Thank you.

This has been today’s rant. Copies available on written request.

Hey, that was in my crossword puzzle this morning.
I kept trying to misspell it. Took a minute.

I’d like to see the meaning of the word trump changed from override to swindle. In the meantime, I kinda wish people would stop using it.

Prodigal.

The son is prodigal because he spent all the money his Dad gave him not because he returned. Being prodigal has nothing to do with returning.

(My) ignorance fought!

OP, you seem to be experiencing a crisis of some type. An important, formative one. Not sure what you call that…

You need more practice; I could misspell it in far less time than a minute.

“It’s like I’m…aware…but…of myself.”- Barbie, having an existential crisis

Existential is a fine word, when used properly. Unlike penultimate, or literally, which have become the epi-tome of improper usages.

I’ll nominate Amazing. Not everything is amazing. Not everyone is amazed by the same thing. In fact, when someone says Amazing, my first reaction is to not be amazed. As you go thru your day, listen to how many times this word appears. The word is overused.

Even in bridge?

Well, I’ve never played or even understood bridge, but I’d hate hearing the word there, too. :grinning:

I ask everyone to stop using the word farfegnugen.

…Okay, thank you everyone, I didn’t expect that to work so quickly.

It’s quiet in here all of the sudden.

And I’m cold.

This New Yorker cartoon is relevant:

Here’s another:

Another casualty of applied metaphysics.

Everything is awesome.

And there are wolves after me.

The “people playing cards” and the “too much…” links give me pictures of kittens.
I have a Chrome Extension called Make America Kittens Again. It changes pictures of a certain person to pictures of kittens. Much better to look at.
And at a recent card game, I corrected others… I told them that the term is Biden now.

It’s not working, because the People Playing Cards does not have his picture at all.