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This descriptor has been rendered totally meaningless....The Grand Canyon is awesome....your new pork chop recipe isn't.Someone,Kill this expression,please.
AWESOME Please make it stop
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 02:06 AM
A couple of N's friends use it constantly, and not as a modifier. (Sample conversation: "We had a really great dinner at this Chinese place last night." "Awesome!") After our dinner party, I was saying it a bit too much.
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 02:14 AM
It has replaced "Kewl!"[cool],but it is so Tired...I"m tending to discount anything or anyone using this damned word,and forbid its' use in my pastry department...it makes my skin crawl at this point...
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 02:15 AM
this thread is gay.
purdah nahin jab koi khuda se, bandon se purdah karna kya?
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maybe it wasn't the best wording.
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 02:29 AM
QUOTE(StephanieL @ Jan 12 2010, 09:06 PM) 
Sample conversation: "We had a really great dinner at this Chinese place last night." "Awesome!"
You're only as good as your grease.
When working with high heat, the first contact between the cooking surface and the food must be respected.
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When working with high heat, the first contact between the cooking surface and the food must be respected.
-- Francis Mallman
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 02:30 AM
QUOTE(mongo_jones @ Jan 12 2010, 08:15 PM)
this thread is gay.
I think it's awesome!
::ducking and running::
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Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 04:24 AM
And while we're at it, can we get people stop calling things BRILLIANT? Einstein is brilliant. A rock band - not so much.
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 04:26 AM
People very close to me use it constantly. And of course my daughter is picking it up. And to make matters worse, most pronounce it "ossum" to rhyme with "possum."
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 05:52 AM
QUOTE(bloviatrix @ Jan 12 2010, 08:24 PM)
And while we're at it, can we get people stop calling things BRILLIANT? Einstein is brilliant. A rock band - not so much.
I don't mind brilliant because it seems rather British, which I enjoy.
The one that is getting on my nerves is "like."
"Like, you know my boyfriend and I like went to the movies and like he was such a dick like I couldn't get him to like sit still like...." You get the point.
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 09:42 AM
Not wishing to sound like a curmudgeonly old git (which I am rapidly approaching) but I had cause to spend some time over Xmas in the presence of teenagers. Never heard sentence construction quite so alien. The word "like" is used as a comma but in the wrong places. Many things are described as "awesome" (no it's not, it's a dish of roast potatoes) and of course everything else is simply "wicked". Young people today.....
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 12:01 PM
nevermind
Never assume animosity when stupidity could be the cause.
Whichever side you're on, the other side doesn't just have bad ideas, they have to be bad people too.
People like her are always scared. It’s a lonely world when you’re just so damned right and everyone else is so stupid. That’s why God made cats.
He tended to date high-strung women — another symptom of his shyness. "Say what you want about them, psychotics tend to make the first move."
When you get over-confident, you get your ass kicked with your own shoes. (Fabio, Top Chef)
They probably drink corporate water.
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Whichever side you're on, the other side doesn't just have bad ideas, they have to be bad people too.
People like her are always scared. It’s a lonely world when you’re just so damned right and everyone else is so stupid. That’s why God made cats.
He tended to date high-strung women — another symptom of his shyness. "Say what you want about them, psychotics tend to make the first move."
When you get over-confident, you get your ass kicked with your own shoes. (Fabio, Top Chef)
They probably drink corporate water.
'Happy Cuatro de Cinco!'
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Posted 13 January 2010 - 12:21 PM
QUOTE(wingding @ Jan 12 2010, 08:59 PM)
This descriptor has been rendered totally meaningless....The Grand Canyon is awesome....your new pork chop recipe isn't.Someone,Kill this expression,please.
And it's bastard brother, Amazing.
"Oh man, that burger is amazing."
No it's not unless it got up off the plate and started singing a duet with the French fries.
Lazy, careless language, assembled from a bunch of catchphrases.
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"Perhaps there are two tea smoked ducks, and we ordered from the wrong part of the menu. Having everything in English is a bit confusing."- CH poster.
"Perhaps there are two tea smoked ducks, and we ordered from the wrong part of the menu. Having everything in English is a bit confusing."- CH poster.
