"Amazing" Should be Banished From the English Language

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I can vividly imagine the exact sort of people these are, and I doubt I'm too far off.

Nobody likes those people.
 

Phishfood

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So, "amazing" is the 99%? occupy the OED!

Also, the word "The" was used 28 times in that article assuming my rushed count is accurate. Ban "the"!
 

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I don't think that "amazing" gets that badly overused.

Epic on the other hand. Or anyone who sings the word "Friday" within earshot of me.


Fuck those people.
 

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I'll be honest I'm just impressed that no-one's made a 'knee arrow in the' joke in response to Grey's opinion (Possibly along the lines of 'I used to think like that...') yet.

Good job escapist. You have once again proved yourselves to be a cut or two above the average.
 

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No ban for "ironic?" i mean, half the internet seems to have forgotten how to use the word correctly so i thought these guys would be all over it.

Man that's Ironic

As for *Announcer voice* AAAAMMMAZING! Meh at least "legendary" has stopped, remember when everything was "legendary?" Good times
 

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So when are "gimmick" and "pretentious" going to show up? 'Cuz those seem to be the new default words used to describe something you don't like.
 
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I'd replace "amazing" with "awesome" personally.

Awesome has been so overused by the internet it's lost all punch.

Also troll and "haters gonna hate". "Troll/Trolling" has evolved into "someone who's opinion differs from mine" and "haters gonna hate" is now just "valid criticism gonna get a passive-aggressive response".
 

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Well. Stephen Fry basically summed that up for me.

Why the hell can't shoes or hair be amazing?
They can lecture me on English when they can spell colour correctly.
 
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Bhaalspawn said:
The_root_of_all_evil said:
(Non-UK people: The Only Way Is Essex makes Jersey Shore look like Frasier)
I say the same thing about "The Office"

(UK People: The one with Steve Carell, that for some reason gets nominated for "Best Comedy" at the Emmys every fucking year.)
Yeah, but if I was gonna start naming bad UK sitcoms, I'd be here all year.

At least The Office has actors in it though.
 

Niksilp

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I used to think certain words should be banned...then I took a pointed weapon to the patella.
 

ph0b0s123

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I remember Louis CK in a Stand-up talking about just this.


The whole thing is great but the mis-use of 'amazing' starts about 1.40 in.
 

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I'm guilty of spamming superlatives! Incredible: Amazing: Awesome: The Best: Epic: Super: Fabulous (without sounding camp as well) and many more defending on what the situation calls for!
 

TheRightToArmBears

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I hate prescriptivist people. No one cares what you think, you're not going to change anything. Language changes, deal with it.
 

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Lord Mountbatten Reborn said:
I'll know I've hit rock bottom if I've got nothing better to do than publish a list of words that should be banned. It's probably a bit of fun seeing as it could never be enforced, just it's fun for what sound like slightly insufferable people.
This is the best post in the thread thus far (prior to my own, of course). It's flippant, light-hearted humour for smug oafs.

'Occupy'? That has a prettygood reason to not be used. It's not like 'amazing', which (apparenntly) plagues the English-speaking world as the go-to superlative (but as people have mentioned, it's better than 'epic'); you've been hearing it a lot because it's a thing which has been in the news. Did they list 'War in Iraq' as well?
 

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DeanoTheGod said:
I'm guilty of spamming superlatives! Incredible: Amazing: Awesome: The Best: Epic: Super: Fabulous (without sounding camp as well) and many more defending on what the situation calls for!
Now how the hell can you say fabulous without sounding camp?
 

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