Why does the word "amazing" MAKE ME SO MAD?

amazing rant

If I want to make fun of a hipster, I just sigh out the word "amazing."

This is nudespock, right?

ZOMG AMZING

it is annoying, i've been trying to say it less :/

amazing rant

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:26 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

amaze-zing

http://img345.imageshack.us/img345/5479/dave23qk.jpg

Words: extant!

hahahahahahaha

Hi Derek.

This is nudespock, right?

No.

I AM THE AMAZING RANDY

People's misuse of "literally" bothers me more than the overuse of certain adjectives.

I use the word amazing, i'm very sorry. I only use it when i'm drunk.

I also use the word literally when i'm very drunk. I kinda hate myself. Not as much as i hate you though.

you sound intense

you don't know 'the half of it'.

Oh wow. Last month I had somebody say to me, "We literally had to re-invent the wheel".

I could simply reply, "YES, YOU DID".

If you're amazed by more than 10 things then you are obviously prone to amazement and so easily impressed that you can no longer be trusted to assess the value of amazement

Have you ever, like, seen stuff?

A lot of it's pretty great.

haha actually I think you might be right. never mind.

I love when people misuse "literally", because it almost always give me a gigglefit.

i have never seen stuff in my life.

AMAZING JOB GUYS ANOTHER THREAD ABOUT MISUSING "LITERALLY"

People on ilx are so well amazingly spoken they want the world to know.

I probably use the work amazing too much.

People's misuse of "literally" bothers me more than the overuse of certain adjectives.

Yeah, it's annoying but what's more annoying is people that find the need to point out people's misuse of "literally". Most of us know that it's often used incorrectly and sometimes slip up and do it ourselves. I had a friend who used to point this out and correct people as if none of us actually knew what the word meant. It was so fucking annoying.

hahaha I literally made a typo there xp

AMAZING JOB GUYS ANOTHER THREAD ABOUT MISUSING "LITERALLY"

Ha. Exactly.

LITERALLY AMAZING!

i could care less about this thread

dude not everyone obsessively reads EVERY THREAD ON EVERY BOARD, YOU KNOB

i never use amazing. i totally overuse "fucking awesome" though. there's usually little awe and less fucking involved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX4br4w9g5E

Irregardless, these are very important issues that merit further discussion.

Hopefully, we can come to some solution.

WOW LITERALLY IS A WORD WITH MORE THAN ONE MEANING - WHAT WILL RETARDS WHO THINK THEYRE SMART DO W/THEIR FREE TIME NOW??????

NO DOUBT SOMETHING AMAZING!!!!!!

Amazing work Oilyrags.

I was told today I say "right on" too often, which is probably true.

A friend of mine described his (newish) girlfriend to all of his friends almost exclusively by the word 'amazing' for like 9 months. That made us a little suspicious.

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/incredible.html

Oh man. Now I'm thinking about the guy who always corrects people on their misuse of "literally" and am really fucking annoyed by the very thought of him/it. Thanks guys. :-(

imo anybody who posts like theyre in a xkdc cartoon is bancruisin' hard

yah language pedants are the worst - always always so wrong

literally wrong about everything

amazingly wrong

you mean "wrong about literally everything."

this word is so fucking over-used

language pedantry on oral speech=i hate you, go to hell, language is malleable

language pedantry on emails=you are a freak yet i sympathize with you

language pedantry on a written report/work/etc=acceptable

Ok Mr Q, that sounds fair.

Mr. Que OTM

^^^I'll vote for that

GENIUS

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Ditto.

On Planet Fashion they've shortened it to MAZING. Or May-zin. I look forward to A/W 09 for issuance of new fashpack buzzword.

LITCHRULLY MAZIN

i sometimes write 'MAZIN in tribute to late 80s Smash Hits

may zing:

I can't tell any of these films apart

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 9:15 PM

it's pretty easy to and here's a tip: they have different names and in many cases different actors playing james bond.

-- félix pié, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 9:45 PM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Amazing1.jpg

i could care less about this thread

I don't believe you. There is no possible way you could care less about this thread.

no i could, i mean, i don't care about this thread one bit! who fucking cares, right? i mean people say amazing sometimes big whoop. i really think there is no way i could care less about this thread

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/b/b3/250px-Aerosmith_B.jpg

I, too, overuse "awesome."

uh Que you just agreed with me ergo I win, yay

The word 'literally' is fucking CLASSIC CLASSIC CLASSIC bcz of the theme song for the world's best sitcom, the Clueless TV series.

bahaha:

This is so retro now because if you have the money you can live in Bev Hills or shop there and everyone has a cell phone.

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5602/20070627grammarsnobskv0.jpg

For all intensive purposes, this isn't what I wanted out of this thread.

MY HEAD A SPLODE

Out of control amazing.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/amazing-graph.png

Sick of medieval Florentine poets over-using the word "divine".

male bolge?

Level 10 - YOGA FLAME POPPINS NEPHEW

http://www.ebrington.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/wizard_2007.jpg

http://www.amazinglucinda.com/f/design/t_header_left.jpg?1210317263088

Area's Largest!

Originally meant to be put into a maze or labyrinth, to be puzzled. See Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress. So, when someone says they are amazed, they're saying they are rather confused, dazed and lost.

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5602/20070627grammarsnobskv0.jpg

did you mean to post this on the xkcd parody thread?

yeah i hate alex lloyd too

whoa the cover of that amazing stories really is amazing though!!

posting this here because i have become what i despise but man can ppl stfu saying "let's touch base" is there any time in history ever when you could not have just said "meet" or "meeting" instead of this bullshit

- when doing sprint drills on a baseball diamond
- according to his publicist, when hanging out with Richard Pryor circa 1980

lol good post

Everyone's a little bit Custos.

"touch base" doesn't have to mean meeting, it can be just like let's correspond and make sure we both know what's up, in fact it seems kind of insubstantial as a term for an actual meeting but yeah i cringe when i hear myself say it

i have an outsized affection for the word "tremendous" but i am paranoid that it will become ruined through overuse

so i guard it closely, a sip of whisky for special occasions

I can't find the "It is what it is" thread. But that one still makes me unreasonably angry.

Well, you know...

I kept the right ones out. And let the wrong ones in.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-kolesnikova13-2008may13,0,4111689.story

I'm an occasional tutor in San Francisco public schools with 826 Valencia, a writing-based community outreach program, and I have seen some linguistic horrors in the trenches. I've been asked how to spell "here" and "one" by high school seniors and seen more your/you're, there/their, to/too mix-ups than a homophone workbook. But at least those students were using actual words. I dread my first encounter with text-speak, but I know it's coming: "Marcel Marceau lived in France and totally brought the LOLz." Even more gut-tossing is the fact that 25% of teens in the Pew study have used emoticons on tests, homework and essays. Oh, imagine the history papers: "When President Abe Lincoln was gatted, the whole country was =(, even though some in the South must have been =P."

Linguistic butchery while texting is one thing. In school assignments, it is quite another. What's worse is how popular culture is encouraging this madness. A notorious offender called ICanHasCheezburger.com is a cute enough diversion -- it posts adorable pictures of cats, "lolcats" as they're called, with funny captions. But persevere beyond your first gag reflex and you'll notice that the captions are written in lolspeak.

Lolspeak has its own wiki-dictionary online -- sorry, a dikshunary -- where fanatics go to linguistically out-mangle one another. A recent entry on ICanHasCheezburger.com featured a cat looming over a laptop with the caption: "Just when u thot it wuz safe 2 go bak on teh interwebs." Another features a kitten: "why ur hed just asplode? wuz it my cuteness? sry."

Why did my head just "asplode," kitty dear? Because I could not transcribe that caption without Microsoft Word's AutoCorrect going into overdrive. And because ICanHasCheezburger.com receives 50 million page views every single month. Only 50% of users are between 18 and 49 -- which means a large chunk of the under-18 set is picking up lolspeak when they should be learning English.

needs its own thread

posting this here because i have become what i despise but man can ppl stfu saying "let's touch base" is there any time in history ever when you could not have just said "meet" or "meeting" instead of this bullshit

-- and what, Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:12 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

i know this german lady who was under the impression that expression was lets touch space - she said it that way for like five years and no one noticed cause of her accent

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"When President Abe Lincoln was gatted, the whole country was =(, even though some in the South must have been =P."

-- and what, Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:35 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

a+

without Microsoft Word's AutoCorrect going into overdrive

Another victim of the tyranny of AutoCorrect. Break those bonds! Loose those chains!

everybody uses predictive text now anyway

I knew you were going to say that!

predictive posting!

There is nothing wrong with lolspeak, per se. It is cute. Now and then it is funny. Cute and funny are not bad things.

What is regretable is not having a full and rich vocabulary of real english words. First, because such a vocabulary allows you to communicate with nuance and precision, but also because it allows you to notice and appreciate the nuances or precision of those who are communicating with you.

Lose that and you lose something of great value.

I told someone to "ping" me the other day and wanted to slit my wrists in the men's room.

Amazing thread btw!

Should have asked for a full portscan.