"Amazing" Should be Banished From the English Language

Mr.Pandah

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Oh please. I hope that every year they use this list as a way to relax from whatever else they're up to but if they don't...dear god. Some people are just so uptight about everything that they'll always have something to complain about. I love the word awesome, I've never heard someone use baby bump and occupy hasn't been used as much as they're being led to believe. I used to be grumpy and self-righteous like them, but then I decided to enjoy life.
 

Something Amyss

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Mr.Pandah said:
Oh please. I hope that every year they use this list as a way to relax from whatever else they're up to but if they don't...dear god. Some people are just so uptight about everything that they'll always have something to complain about. I love the word awesome, I've never heard someone use baby bump and occupy hasn't been used as much as they're being led to believe. I used to be grumpy and self-righteous like them, but then I decided to enjoy life.
So your response to something that isn't taken serious is to take it really serious and tell them to relax...

There's like four levels of irony there. Five, if you count the "Rayiiiiain on your wedding day" sense.
 

Baldry

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I don't like the idea of banning words, besides the the fact "nobody" will notice and people will still continue with the use of these certain words, it just seems pointless to limit our own language and get rid of something that is used too much.
 

orangeban

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Hey, maybe my shoes are amazing, maybe they're magic shoes, didn't think of that, did ya'?

And I object to wanting to get rid of Occupy, purely because Occupy Wall Street didn't invent the word, it's the legitimate title of a form of protest, Occupation. You can't just get rid of it, what would we call that type of protest?

And what's wrong with Baby Bump? Yeah, gut and tummy do sound weird (and are sorta inaccurate since it isn't just the stomach, it's the whole lower torso that's swelled up there), so baby bump serves it's purpose.
 

doggy go 7

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"beurocracy", so tory's can come with intelligent arguments insted of saying that over and over and over and over again.
 

putowtin

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AmrasCalmacil said:
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.
or pronounce herbs, aluminium and Edinburgh.
 

Suave Charlie

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
and "tummy" makes anyone over the age of thirty sound like a sexual predator
Huh? Since when. Fornicate that drivel.

Personally I'd go for "Fantastic", "-gate" and "-ism", "Literally", "Actually" and anything ever muttered by the TOWIE lot.

(Non-UK people: The Only Way Is Essex makes Jersey Shore look like Frasier)

I wouldn't ban them so much as to only let them free when needed. Not every damn sentence.
This is the most reem post ever.
 

drisky

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MelasZepheos said:
Why is an American University saying anything about the English language?

As an Englishman I have to protest that the people in charge of this survey utilise the language incorrectly in hundreds of ways every single day.

Pavement, not sidewalk
Dustbin/rubbishbin, not trashcan
Colour not Color
Lefttenant not Lootenant

Keep English English!
Honestly, Englishmen do not speak the same as they did 300 years ago. Why do you except all the land you acquired back then to change their manner of speaking every time you do? You shouldn't have claimed more territory then you knew how to keep tabs on if you want everyone to keep up. Unless, of course, you were being ironic (a word people seem to hate but I do not know what else to use in this context), bringing up the fact that language evolves over time and people shouldn't freak out over its misuse. After all, at the end of the day we all just speak terribly incorrect Latin.
 

Lieju

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I probably don't watch that kind of tv then, because I can't think of 'amazing' being overused. 'Epic' still is, and it's used just to mean 'cool' too. And not 'epic'.
 

martyrdrebel27

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this is all well and good, but what does a picture of Sheogorath sitting on a rock have to do with anything?
 

Kuchinawa212

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As far as Awesome has to go. I like that word, but baby bump should go...like...right now
And "I'm the preggers" I don't even think...How did.....WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN! WHO CAME UP WITH THAT?!