[jghn]

unfortunately load bearing is one of those things that became a claudism but has been part of my daily lexicon for decades. There are a lot of things I say regularly as part of my own vocal quirkiness that now I have to self censor.

[PcChip]

I've used it since that simpsons episode

"it's a load bearing poster..."

[jghn]

I'm pretty sure that's not the source for me but most of my vocal quirks have origin stories like this so it's entirely possible. They're almost always things that I heard which either amused me or I thought sounded cool at the time and just stuck with me.

[crabmusket]

I have a bad habit of doing this with things players have said on Just A Minute and have just lodged in my brain.

[pseudohadamard]

And any petrolhead will be familiar with the phrase "it's structural rust".

[koolba]

Which is a perfectly cromulent usage of the phrase.

[willmarch]

You don’t have to self censor to appease others

[JSR_FDED]

Agree you don’t. But from a purely self-interested perspective, you might want to avoid phrases that to others indicate low effort.

[frumiousirc]

True. Though, I self censor to appease myself as I have caught myself picking up claudisms. I was mortified when I realized that I had started to use "land" as a verb related to finishing some bit of work.