Awesome is not such an awesome word that you people need to say it all the time. Seriously, “awesome” has been blown completely out of proportion. It used to be that anything that was AWESOME was actually worthy of awe. AWE! Awe is a big thing. A bowl of Captain Crunch cannot be awesome. Your new hubcaps…also not awesome. And nobody’s facial hair has ever come close to actually being awesome. That includes Civil War generals, the dudes from ZZ Top, and your ugly-as-an elephant’s-butthole roommate.
The Online Etymology Dictionary claims that “the weakened colloquial sense of ‘impressive, very good’ was recorded by 1961″. So perhaps “awesome” was never so big in my lifetime. Still, that doesn’t excuse people from using it twenty times in a paragraph.
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I typed “I hate awesome” into my search engine and this was the first place I came to that wasn’t some stupid comment about someone hating something that was “awesome” to someone else. I feel like strangling someone who uses this word these days, done to death, it is now a useless and demeaning word, it should be removed from the lexicon!
Posted 20 Mar 2011 at 5:52 pm ¶Wow, I’m sure glad to find other people fed up with how “awesome” has been turned into an absolutely meaningless and worthless word by the general public.
Have you ever had a thought on the word, “incredible”? I don’t know if it was ever strictly used to describe things that were not credible, but it sure sounds like that would be a good use of the word. I feel like society must have fucked up incredible somewhere over the decades, as with awesome
Posted 25 Mar 2011 at 11:11 pm ¶It’s a pleasure to see that others are weary of this over-used, under-meaningful word… Grand it is!
Posted 26 Nov 2011 at 12:51 pm ¶“astonishing” is what most corporate advertisements (as well as nature documentaries, for some reason) tend to use instead of “awesome”, with the same frequency, and it irks me at least as much as “awesome” does.
Posted 02 Jan 2012 at 9:00 pm ¶A little part of me dies every time I log into Facebook and see my so called friends proclaim how ‘awesome’ their lives are.
Posted 21 Jan 2012 at 1:08 am ¶So glad to find more ‘awesome’phobic people in here. Thought I was the only one who cringed when inanimate items, abstract ideas, people… and what not were addressed with the same beaten-to-death word. I do the count sometimes when I am with people who use this word on an hourly basis .. its got that bad.
Posted 29 Jan 2012 at 3:11 am ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 1
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