One of my pet dislikes is the tendency to overuse a few descriptive words in the English language, a few that particularly grate on me at the moment are (awesome, amazing and fantastic) remove these from the dictionary and I suspect a large majority of the under 30s would be almost struck dumb.
The following is a quote from this page http://outofthebubble.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/this-is-the-best-banana-ive-had-since-the-last-one/
"Anyway, what he was saying is that the under-25 generation today in America has gone nuts with the superlatives, and we need to back it off if we ever want to be taken seriously. That is, if you overuse the superlative as much as folks in my generation typically do, who’s going to listen to you when you actually have something to say? What good is my word on faith, or art, or the things I’m passionate about when I regularly say things like “this is the best banana I’ve ever had in my life?” Essentially he means the more you use the superlative, the less valuable it becomes, so say what you mean, and mean what you say. Your words are more valuable when you reserve the most passionate ones to describe the things you’re most passionate about."
Wonder if others feel the same? :-/
The following is a quote from this page http://outofthebubble.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/this-is-the-best-banana-ive-had-since-the-last-one/
"Anyway, what he was saying is that the under-25 generation today in America has gone nuts with the superlatives, and we need to back it off if we ever want to be taken seriously. That is, if you overuse the superlative as much as folks in my generation typically do, who’s going to listen to you when you actually have something to say? What good is my word on faith, or art, or the things I’m passionate about when I regularly say things like “this is the best banana I’ve ever had in my life?” Essentially he means the more you use the superlative, the less valuable it becomes, so say what you mean, and mean what you say. Your words are more valuable when you reserve the most passionate ones to describe the things you’re most passionate about."
Wonder if others feel the same? :-/



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