I wish it was a common practice to ban certain words from difficult conversations. But whenever I suggest it people just talk past me as though I've said some weird thing.

There's facts and opinions, but also definitions, and too often disagreements boil down to a different definition of a single word. Ban that word and say what you mean and the disagreement may suddenly be gone.

Edit: I wrote this before reading the second paragraph. :) I'll leave it as an alternate way of saying the same.

Let me ask, has anyone successfully "tabooed" certain words, or do people not understand the purpose of doing so?