Howdy, y'all! As usual, our 1st Sunday of the month is casual and silly conversation, chitchat, and generally unserious stuff. Lurkers might want to de-lurk, say hi, and allow us to greet them. We might even clarify how cool it is to be a member of the preeminent disabilities group at the Great Orange Satan... who knows?
Our nominal topic for the evening is something that's been driving me batty over the past couple of months, and I'm fairly certain that I can't be the only one: annoying overuse/misuse of certain words. For me, the current word is 'amazing'. Come on down for my small rant about this, and share one of your own if you so desire.
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Neither Texan or I are desperate hardcore TV watching people, but there are a few shows over a breadth of topics that we watch regularly. Some are purely entertainment, and others are a learning experience (really!). The design/decorating shows, auction and picker series, antique finds and refurbishing, and food-related stuff, to name a few categories. Recently I've noticed that not one otherwise intelligent person on these shows can describe any single thing without resorting to the word 'amazing', and it's driving me crazy.
Google search keywords:
amazing annoying word
About 85,300,000 results
According to Merriam-Webster Online: the definition of amazing is:
causing amazement, great wonder, or surprise
Synonyms: surprising, astonishing, astounding, blindsiding, dumbfounding (also dumfounding), eye-opening, flabbergasting, jarring, jaw-dropping, jolting, shocking, startling, stunning, stupefying
Does this happen to you? What are the words, catchphrases, clichés, or babble that makes you want to reach out and whack someone with a dictionary and thesaurus?