An Amazing Rant

[gaia.plateau]

It needs to stop.

Two in three girls I meet these days has only this one god damned adjective in their vocabulary, and I find younger guys to be nearly as bad. Stop it.

"Oooh look at that necklace, it's AMAAAAZING"
"Check out this amazing picture I found on the internet"
"You should taste this cabbage I found yesterday, it's amazing!"
"Chloe said the most amazing thing this morning"
"It's amazing that you were all able to make it tonight"

I am not fucking amazed. Indeed, the only thing about these people that amazes me is how their brains somehow managed to grasp human speech.

It's all over the media as well, and I feel that it's a significant contribution to the widescale degradation of the English language, especially among the young. There are enough forces driving our culture of hyperbole without us individually exacerbating it.

amazing [adj]: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder. Source.

I've got my girl to stop using the word altogether. Sometimes she even catches me using it and gets to smack me.

Please, my fellow smokers, stop using the word amazing in every god damned context. For our children's sakes. It gets on my fucking tits.

For your convenience.

Stunning, Outstanding, Superb, Excellent, Magnificent, Fantastic, Smashing, Striking, Sensational, Groovy, Glorious, Astounding, Astonishing, Awe-inspiring, Impressive, Surprising, Fabulous, Capital, Grand, Extraordinary, Copasetic, Spectacular, Avid, Arresting, Nifty, Spiffy, Peachy, Swell, Brilliant, Super, Stupendous, Dazzling, Resplendent, Stupefying, Raging, Formidable, Illuminating, Splendid, Reverberant, Awing, Resounding, Superior, Ridiculous, Very Good, Bloody Good, Bloody Excellent, Freaking Ridiculous, Fucking A, Effective, Effectual, Elucidating, Staggering, and I'm sure dozens of others. Proliferate them.

I feel very strongly about this. Edited December 22, 2007 by gaia.plateau

[TheScotsman]

It needs to stop.

Two in three girls I meet these days has only this one god damned adjective in her vocabulary, and I find younger guys to be nearly as bad. Stop it.

"Oooh look at that necklace, it's AMAAAAZING"
"Check out this amazing picture I found on the internet"
"You should taste this cabbage I found yesterday, it's amazing!"
"Chloe said the most amazing thing this morning"
"It's amazing that you were all able to make it tonight"

I am not fucking amazed. Indeed, the only thing about these people that amazes me is how their brains somehow managed to grasp human speech.

It's all over the media as well, and I feel that it's a significant contribution to the widescale degradation of the English language, especially among the young. There are enough forces driving our culture of hyperbole without us individually exacerbating it.

amazing [adj]: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder. Source.

I've got my girl to stop using the word altogether. Sometimes she even catches me using it and gets to smack me.

Please, my fellow smokers, stop using the word amazing in every god damned context. For our children's sakes. It gets on my fucking tits.

For your convenience.

Stunning, Outstanding, Superb, Excellent, Magnificent, Fantastic, Smashing, Striking, Sensational, Groovy, Glorious, Astounding, Astonishing, Awe-inspiring, Impressive, Surprising, Fabulous, Capital, Grand, Extraordinary, Copasetic, Spectacular, Avid, Arresting, Nifty, Spiffy, Peachy, Swell, Brilliant, Super, Stupendous, Dazzling, Resplendent, Stupefying, Raging, Formidable, Illuminating, Splendid, Reverberant, Awing, Resounding, Superior, Ridiculous, Very Good, Bloody Good, Bloody Excellent, Freaking Ridiculous, Fucking A, Effective, Effectual, Elucidating, Staggering, and I'm sure dozens of others. Proliferate them.

I feel very strongly about this.

Edit: JD or Mush, could you change the title of this thread to "An Amazing Rant", with no subtitle please? That would be staggeringly glorious of you.

Someone has to say it... so I shall get it out of the way in short order...


AMAZING

[thecoalition]

For those of us who were born and raised in the north i will help to add:

WICKED and Tits.

that is all.

[Johnny_D]

Consider it done Gaia my rather Formidable Friend.

[Bryantos]

You're ranting about "amazing"?

You know they almost seperated "Ebonics" from the english language? There is no racism intended here, either. Thats just what the media called it. Edited December 22, 2007 by Bryantos

[gaia.plateau]

You're ranting about "amazing"?

You know they almost seperated "Ebonics" from the english language? There is no racism intended here, either. Thats just what the media called it.

There's nothing inherently detrimental, offensive, or wrong about the word "amazing", as is made clear in the original post... it's the grotesque overuse of the word in the very late modern era, especially by the young and very especially by the young female gender, that, as I mentioned, gets on my fucking tits.

Words are thoughts, and when one only uses a single adjective thought, over and over again to ad nauseum, one stagnates one's mind. For the second time on these forums I cite the film Idiocracy, relating to the theory of dysgenics. Edited December 22, 2007 by gaia.plateau

[EternalSoil]

that rant was fucking amaz.... AWESOME!!!

ha! rant that! .... awesome...

[SmokingDjinn]

Honestly I consider it an improvement from, the word "like" and "whatever". Seriously, I know people that use this word everyother word they say. For the fun of it sometimes I count how many times they say "like" and THAT my friend is AMAZING.

[Snoopy1966]

so a wOOt wOOt would not count either? It made it into the Dictionary

[gaia.plateau]

so a wOOt wOOt would not count either? It made it into the Dictionary

Haha I suppose that would be better.

You just might not pick up many girls with that one.

[SmokingDjinn]

Words are thoughts, and when one only uses a single adjective thought, over and over again to ad nauseum, one stagnates one's mind

So you're saying Lil John has a stagnate mind?!?! Whaaaaat! Okaaaaay!

[Snoopy1966]

I just looked at my reviews and I think I used like and that in the proper context. Like for sure...totally.

[Scheetz]

I hear ya. Most people only keep 1 expressive word in their vocab for each feeling. It is rather annoying, but then again it gives me more of a chance to be an asshole to them about it. If you personally over use the word around them they will stop. Something I quickly realized and utilize as much as possible.

[btuner]

i love that new bud light commercial where the guy uses "dude" to describe everything!

[kornkitten42]

what really chaps my rear is when people say LIKE in every stupid sentence.

like, totally, i totally like, love that sweater!

I'm sorry we are no where near the god damn valley. SPEAK NORMAL.

Like for real? Like oh my god!

UGH.......

[Snoopy1966]

what really chaps my rear is when people say LIKE in every stupid sentence.

like, totally, i totally like, love that sweater!

I'm sorry we are no where near the god damn valley. SPEAK NORMAL.

Like for real? Like oh my god!

UGH.......

Yup my sentiments exactally....lol Valley Girl for sure, like do you know what I mean? That was so 80's, do they still talk like that in Cal???? Edited December 23, 2007 by Snoopy1966

[HarryTheHookaMaster]

I think the spoken language has taken a huge shit as of late......

One thing that "gets on my tits" is "Business speak". Everytime I have to listen to a company kiss-ass try to use every new "spin" word..... I just want to choke the shit out of him as I feel my brain cells commiting sucicide!

my 2 cents from the woods,

Harry

[Johnny_D]

I think the spoken language has taken a huge shit as of late......

One thing that "gets on my tits" is "Business speak". Everytime I have to listen to a company kiss-ass try to use every new "spin" word..... I just want to choke the shit out of him as I feel my brain cells commiting sucicide!

my 2 cents from the woods,

Harry

I'll go with that. In fact i'm fairly well known for kicking people out of a meeting for using stupid corporate speak.

We speak english in my Team and none of that happy horse-hockey.

JD

[gaia.plateau]

In fact i'm fairly well known for kicking people out of a meeting for using stupid corporate speak.

We speak english in my Team and none of that happy horse-hockey.

JD

You just need to synergize your effectual functionality! Edited December 24, 2007 by gaia.plateau

[Canon]

i was wanting to aks you something... is that the best rant you can come up with?

if you were to aks me what really gets on my nerves i would tell you that you aksed me a good question and to answer what you aksed me it definately not the word amazing

[gaia.plateau]

i was wanting to aks you something... is that the best rant you can come up with?

if you were to aks me what really gets on my nerves i would tell you that you aksed me a good question and to answer what you aksed me it definately not the word amazing

No one pronounces "ask" like that in Canada I would have began my murderous rampage years ago if I lived in the Southern US. So annoying.

[Canon]

i was wanting to aks you something... is that the best rant you can come up with?

if you were to aks me what really gets on my nerves i would tell you that you aksed me a good question and to answer what you aksed me it definately not the word amazing

No one pronounces "ask" like that in Canada I would have began my murderous rampage years ago if I lived in the Southern US. So annoying.

consider yourself amazingly lucky

[HarryTheHookaMaster]

ok...I got another thing that pisses me off: Surban white kids talking like "gangsters".

When you ax them where the are from they say "the streets"....what street would that be, Seseme Street???

I don't think the concept of "hood" has a gate and security guards riding golf carts...

Harry

[Dr. Atkins]

I agree, Harry! And what's the deal with those darned mattress tags?

[ghostofdavid]

Language, and how people use it, is a mirror of the intelligencia of the culture. When society loses absolutes, words become meaningless, they are used in incorrect ways. The same thing happens to art and culture. Lines and splotches made with paint replace DiVinci as "art."

E.G. Awesome, Awesome-Sauce, Wicked, Wicked-Sweet, etc.

I had a really good friend who used the word awesome only when referring to theology. Why? It was the only topic he considered awe-inspiring. Even if you don't agree with his application of the word awesome, he is still using it appropriately.

Back to bed for me!