Posted on 10/14/2026 5:07:27 PM PDT by DoodleBob
I love this. I hate that. Really? Is it necessary to exaggerate? If everything is huge or outrageous or unprecedented, then how will we express things that are truly out of the ordinary? Florid language is the enemy of clear, concise speech. Like putting exclamation points and emojis after every sentence, it pervades modern media and makes everyone sound like adolescent twits. I don't dislike the following expressions, nor do I hate them. I detest them with a burning rage that disrupts the very fabric of space and time.
- Amazing/Amazed: People say this when they really like something, but it seems to imply low expectations. Did you expect your $30 hamburger to suck? Did you expect the roller-coaster to be boring? Who do you think you are, James Bond? And finally, 'Amaze-Balls'? What does that even mean?
- Decimated: Used in journalism and elsewhere to mean drastically reduced. The literal meaning is to be reduced by 10%. Well that all depends don't it? If Jeff Bezos' finances were 'decimated', he would go from $140 billion to just $126 billion... Wow, decimated! How about this; "At the barber shop, my hair was decimated".
- Devastated: To be destroyed. I was devastated when Netflicks stopped streaming Buffy Vampire Slayer. Now you can only rent it on disk.
- Eviscerated/Gutted: Gutted, like a fish. Currently used to say that something has been rendered ineffective somehow. I think a term this disgusting and extreme should refer to extreme cases. For ordinary things it seems quite stupid; "my dinner plans were EVISCERATED", "The yard-debris pickup schedule was GUTTED". Oooooh!
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On steroids.
OK, two words.
EXPONENTIAL!!!!
It is a word with deep meaning. If you are lucky you will have a handful of people in your life you can apply that label to and a few that will apply that label to you.
The loss of a beloved is devastating. It changes your life for years as you think "I have to tell... " only to remember that they are now gone.
It means something beyond, "that's too bad, what's for dinner".
Debunked: to disembark from a bunk bed.
Disembark: to strip the bark from a tree.
Bark: to cough so hard that it resembles the same sound.
Oh, bother.
Throw caution to the wind.
I did and the thing came right back and hit me in the face.
Debunked: to disembark from a bunk bed.
Disembark: to strip the bark from a tree.
Bark: to cough so hard that it resembles the same sound.
Oh, bother.
Throw caution to the wind.
I did and the thing came right back and hit me in the face.
Debunked: to disembark from a bunk bed.
Disembark: to strip the bark from a tree.
Bark: to cough so hard that it resembles the same sound.
Oh, bother.
Throw caution to the wind.
I did and the thing came right back and hit me in the face.
Literally.
I’m sorry. My thumb or this phone has serious sticky key issues.
Awesome !
How about “awesome?” I hate the constant use of “awesome.”
Is God awesome? OK, I agree.
How about an awesome pickle? You and I have probably heard this or something just as stupid many times!
How about “awesome?” I hate the constant use of “awesome.”
Is God awesome? OK, I agree.
How about an awesome pickle? You and I have probably heard this or something just as stupid many times!
She being that volatile begs the question should she be in the same vicinity as good ol laughing gas…
Well, should she?
No, she should not. It’s also too bad I wasn’t partaking of laughing gas. Perhaps I wouldn’t have been so annoyed.
Yes, I hate the trend of peppering speech with “like” every fifth or sixth word. It makes me cringe. “You know” is annoying as well.
“genocide”
took too long to come up with this one.
30 posts really?
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