I can vividly imagine the exact sort of people these are, and I doubt I'm too far off.
Nobody likes those people.
Nobody likes those people.
"Amazing" Should be Banished From the English Language
- Thread starter The Wooster
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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.
Good job escapist. You have once again proved yourselves to be a cut or two above the average.
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
Man that's Ironic
As for *Announcer voice* AAAAMMMAZING! Meh at least "legendary" has stopped, remember when everything was "legendary?" Good times
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.
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".
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".
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.
Why the hell can't shoes or hair be amazing?
They can lecture me on English when they can spell colour correctly.
Yeah, but if I was gonna start naming bad UK sitcoms, I'd be here all year.Bhaalspawn said:
At least The Office has actors in it though.
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!
I hate prescriptivist people. No one cares what you think, you're not going to change anything. Language changes, deal with it.
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.Lord Mountbatten Reborn said:
'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?
