Words you hate?

hammocity said:
I think I'd prefer "nice" to "absolutely amazing", kind of understated nail on the head for something that's just a bet better than average.

Paul Heaton wrote and recorded these lyrics in a song about society currently, "What have we become", it's on the money:


"So it's awesome after awesome after awesome after great
We're so busy lovin' it, we've forgotten to hate
When everything's amazing, you'll eat the whole plate
Opinionless, sad and overweight"
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Ha, yes I can imagine Heaton being unhappy about too much positivity, or perhaps to be fair to him, ersatz positivity ;-)

And yes, I wouldn’t disagree about those other ott comments about things, but I know myself, on Twitter for example, when you might only reply in a few words, it’s so easy to just trot out an ‘incredible’ ‘fabulous’ ‘marvellous’ etc
 
chesterbells said:
Ha, yes I can imagine Heaton being unhappy about too much positivity, or perhaps to be fair to him, ersatz positivity ;-)

And yes, I wouldn’t disagree about those other ott comments about things, but I know myself, on Twitter for example, when you might only reply in a few words, it’s so easy to just trot out an ‘incredible’ ‘fabulous’ ‘marvellous’ etc
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Ha ha, however, I think it's a laugh at positivity, you could show a fully paid up member of the Social Media brigade a digestive biscuit on top of a piece of toast and I guarantee it would be "amazing" or "awesome".

It's a terrible blight and a lot of kids blindly follow each other. My Granddaughter who is 13 has had a City shirt for Christmas every year since the age of about three. Last year she said she didn't want one because "it was like the bottom of a swimming pool" I just accepted that was her view, however I soon realised someone had posted that comment on Facebook and it had spread,with seemingly a lot of kids taking on board the same standpoint. My Granddaughter is a bright girl but she's being influenced by this rubbish spread on SM, it's frightening and no wonder Influencers are being paid a ton of money to promote products to the sheep generation.
 
chesterbells said:
Absolutely. For sure.

@MellowJoe is right though - you may like nice, but if you’ve got kids of school age, you’re doing them no favours if you encourage them to use it. It’s a word that betrays a lack of imagination. I have used it on the past as a single slang word, like sweet, sorted but from people who I know who are teachers it’s one they criticise the students for using in written form.
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As long as nice and good are replaced with agreeable, amiable, pleasant, satisfying, decent etc.

Not superlatives like spectacular, amazing, incredible, fantastic, breathtaking etc… which is often what ends up happening.
 
Not the word itself, but how it is used. Literally. As in, when used to explain that something was so vivid that it really happened, except that it didn't.

I was just on my way here to meet you and a deliveroo driver appeared out of nowhere on the pavement in front of me. I literally shat myself.

Ok. Either you're an exaggerator / liar or this night out has been cut short thanks to you being caught short.
 
bluetonium said:
Not the word itself, but how it is used. Literally. As in, when used to explain that something was so vivid that it really happened, except that it didn't.

I was just on my way here to meet you and a deliveroo driver appeared out of nowhere on the pavement in front of me. I literally shat myself.

Ok. Either you're an exaggerator / liar or this night out has been cut short thanks to you being caught short.
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