"Amazing" Should be Banished From the English Language
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I daresay there are bigger issues in the world, but long live the fun right?
"Amazing" doesn't really bother me that much, "Awesome" bugs me a lot more. "Amazing" is just a tad more revined, I guess.
"Amazing" doesn't really bother me that much, "Awesome" bugs me a lot more. "Amazing" is just a tad more revined, I guess.
Get a pinball machine in there and that is the very definition of a man cave.chronobreak said:Here's the basement to my house, can this be considered a "man cave"?
I agree on Ironic. Also Cynical. Again, i don't hate the words, just the fact that they are misused all the time.The Wykydtron said:
My personal votes for banned 'words' (though you cant really call them words because they're made up) are planogram (seriously? Why? You don't need to combine the words 'plan' and 'diagram'. Unless you're an idiot and work in retail) and quadrilogy. Which is just too fucking moronic for, uh, words...
......... Who cares I can with out a shadow of a doubt say that everyone has and will continue to murder the English language with overused words. The horse has already been beaten to dust and returned to the earth to give nutrients to the plants and soil. This may be continuing along because I watched that Louis CK vid, but let it go everyone cause you, and you..... especially some other tosser who'll not be mentioned will continue on and your children and their children and your children's children, to screw up the English language that they'll be speaking their whole lives.
So just get out now, sheesh!
So just get out now, sheesh!
hmm funny thing is most people I know use amazing purely as a sudo-sarcastic derogatory term, either when something is bad or to express a lack of interest in a subject.
E.G
Amazing! my PC has crashed.
or
Bob: "I just got modern warfare 3!"
John: "Amazing" :-/
(the smiley is to emphasise the lack of enthusiasm in the responders demeanour)
E.G
Amazing! my PC has crashed.
or
Bob: "I just got modern warfare 3!"
John: "Amazing" :-/
(the smiley is to emphasise the lack of enthusiasm in the responders demeanour)
Can we add ignorant to that too I am sooooooooo sick of people using ignorant when they mean rudeThe_Waspman said:
Love you for the Stephen Fry link.
Really, no words should ever have to be banned: in fact the opposite should happen, people should be encouraged to expand their vocabulary.
Really, no words should ever have to be banned: in fact the opposite should happen, people should be encouraged to expand their vocabulary.
Words have trends. Deal with it.
You can't make a big deal just because people are changing the meanings of words slightly.
You can't make a big deal just because people are changing the meanings of words slightly.
This made me think of a world where "Amazing" was only used when really necessary.
That seems like a beautiful place.
That seems like a beautiful place.
I don't think a word can be overused. You can misuse a word, for example using "literally" as a general intensifier, which is wrong because "literally" has a very specific and objective meaning outside of that, qualifying a statement as being un-figurative. This diminishes clarity, as there is no other word with that meaning.
"Amazing", however, is completely subjective. To be amazed is not a unique scenario that requires specialized language to describe. It's no great loss to English if people want to use "amazing" to exaggerate the quality of hair, and the missed opportunity to use a more suitable descriptor for the hair is similarly unlamented.
The degree of an intensifier is inversely related to its ubiquity; the strongest exaggeration is an unusual one, like "devastatingly attractive" or "psychotically well organized" or "cosmically adorable". It's obvious that one stuck in the craw of public consciousness is going to lose its flavor; at which point it is naturally replaced by other words. This is the circle of life.
And, really, "aptly described the process of birth"? Do shut the fuck up.
"Amazing", however, is completely subjective. To be amazed is not a unique scenario that requires specialized language to describe. It's no great loss to English if people want to use "amazing" to exaggerate the quality of hair, and the missed opportunity to use a more suitable descriptor for the hair is similarly unlamented.
The degree of an intensifier is inversely related to its ubiquity; the strongest exaggeration is an unusual one, like "devastatingly attractive" or "psychotically well organized" or "cosmically adorable". It's obvious that one stuck in the craw of public consciousness is going to lose its flavor; at which point it is naturally replaced by other words. This is the circle of life.
And, really, "aptly described the process of birth"? Do shut the fuck up.
You know what the most AMAZING(lol) part of this is? Even if they removed these words from the English language, everyone would still use them. People use words that aren't even real (like funner), so wtf good does deleting a word do!? This kind of stuff only matters to people with yard sticks up their butts who constantly walk around projectile-monocleing at everything they see; uttering the phrase 'My Word!' or 'I never!' like it was a form of greeting.
I have to say this is a really stupid complaint. The word "Amazing" should be banned because it's been used several times in TV shows? No wonder that idea came out on a New Year's Eve party: everyone was drunk when they came up with it.
Of all the words which are far more overused, misunderstood and annoying they didn't mention even one (how about "Irony", which no one seems to know what it means yet everyone uses it?), but "Amazing" is so bad that the Spider-Man comics should be all burned, right? This is ridiculously unbelievable.
Of all the words which are far more overused, misunderstood and annoying they didn't mention even one (how about "Irony", which no one seems to know what it means yet everyone uses it?), but "Amazing" is so bad that the Spider-Man comics should be all burned, right? This is ridiculously unbelievable.
I have always only used "epic" when approiate: in reference to poetry, a certain style of visuals/audio (Ie, avatar, and Halo's music).Marter said:
That said: The definition of words change based on how they are used.
I'd love to ban 'Kudos'.
Also, 'literally', 'epic', 'full of win', 'cake is a lie', 'banhammer', and most importantly 'facepalm'.
Also, 'literally', 'epic', 'full of win', 'cake is a lie', 'banhammer', and most importantly 'facepalm'.
*Sigh*
Yoiu cannot remove ordinary words from the english dictionary just because you don't like them. The only thing you can remove are the 'words' that are NOT words, like bullshit slang-terms. What do you think this is, George Orwell's world of 1984 making everything 'double plus ungood'?
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Nope, sorry. Not buying it. You can take that load and drop it in the bin where it belongs.
Yoiu cannot remove ordinary words from the english dictionary just because you don't like them. The only thing you can remove are the 'words' that are NOT words, like bullshit slang-terms. What do you think this is, George Orwell's world of 1984 making everything 'double plus ungood'?
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Nope, sorry. Not buying it. You can take that load and drop it in the bin where it belongs.
My biggest take away from this is Stephen Fry! That guy's voice has so much charisma, I am immediately a fan.
But that's my favourite George Michael song!!!
As for Occupy, we had one of those rallies in my hometown of Sudbury...Ontario...Canada.
For the initiated, that is not a city in the United States. The thing about Canada is that we don't really have a problem with wealth inequality that I'm aware of. In fact last I checked, we're in the median. So I have no idea what they were protesting.
Yes...yes we can. I see no way to use that phrase properly, so we can.DVS BSTrD said:
As for Occupy, we had one of those rallies in my hometown of Sudbury...Ontario...Canada.
For the initiated, that is not a city in the United States. The thing about Canada is that we don't really have a problem with wealth inequality that I'm aware of. In fact last I checked, we're in the median. So I have no idea what they were protesting.