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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existential threat
Obquerient
Panicked
Nothing burger.
100 percent as an agreement
Usually over and over.
Add GOAT to that.
We are about to witness the GOAT strudel slicer...
Everything is GOAT.
I had to leave to go laugh historically.
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This is funny!
Loving spellchecker
Agree.
And over here we have our conscienously curated charcuterie platter
Missing the old ill used PARAMETERS
Missing the old ill used PARAMETERS
“Fox News Alert!”
Decimate has ALWAYS been misused. The term actually means a 10% reduction in force, but it’s commonly misunderstood to mean a 90% reduction.
I use Discombobulated.
(And barf at ‘utilize’)
My pet hate is decimated.
Deci....
If a commander's 1000 troops are decimated 10 times over, how many troops are left?
a.) about 348
b.) 900
c.) 0
d.) none of the above
answer: maybe they're all correct
Ten successive battles: about 348
Ten simultaneous attacks on 10 fronts: 0
I suspect that may be a British thing.
Regards,
Guilty as charged.
I was too fried last night to think clearly.
Guilty as charged.
I was too fried last night to think clearly.
Guilty as charged.
I was too fried last night to think clearly.
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