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Category Archives: Overused

Epic

It saddens me to announce the death of the adjectival epic. It seems all you shitheads have had your fill of awesome, and have jumped one step up to epic. Now it’s dead. You killed it. First, if you haven’t already read my post on awesome, please do so now. I hate awesome because it’s overused. [...]

Posted 22 April 2011 † Christopher § Adjectives ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Stand Idly By / Sit Idly By

Have you ever heard anyone use the word “idly” without this expression? No, you haven’t, because this word is mentally challenged. It is as lazy as its definition implies and needs the support of at least two other words to function. Look at its entry in the Online Etymology Dictionary. It has no history, it [...]

Posted 08 November 2010 † Christopher § Expressions § Needy § Sounding Important ‡ Comments (2) °

Irony / Ironic

“Irony” has been a word I hated for a long time, but it’s almost TOO BIG now to blog about. The problems with this word are almost too egregious and too numerous to do justice to it. Nonetheless, it screams out for an entry here, if only to put me on record as anti-irony. Certainly, [...]

Posted 11 August 2010 † Christopher § Adjectives § Incorrectly Used § Meaningless § Nouns § Pop Lexicon § Trying to be Cool ‡ Comments (4) °

Awesome

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 [...]

Posted 07 March 2010 † Christopher § Adjectives § Trying to be Cool ‡ Comments (15) °

Velvet / Velveteen

I have posted these together because they both suffer the same problem: poets love them. And not just hack poets, either. Respectable, even professional poets spew “velveteen” like it was “gossamer”. I have no idea what the poetic obsession with these words are. Velvet is a fabric. At one point, it was a beautiful, luxurious, [...]

Posted 08 April 2009 † Christopher § Nouns § Poetry ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,