What exactly does "awesome" mean anyway?
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Re: What exactly does "awesome" mean anyway?
I guess we're using different definitions of the same part of speech, happens sometimes. I'm using #1, you're using #2.dagenham wrote:Wrong there. He is the uber-spokesman for Priceline.com. Uber Massive. Stooping bigtime - reportedly for $10 million a year...Hugh Briss wrote:A 'dude' this 'awesome' would never "stoop". He's got people for that.dagenham wrote: I must agree - that "dude" will always be "awesome" - even if he stoops to being the pathetic huckster for barbeques, blenders or...even online air travel services...
Understandable, before that he was selling his autographs at Star Trek conventions, doing a few plays and a short run as a talk show host (it was good but disappeared quickly)...so it goes...
stoop1
stuËp/
verb
verb: stoop; 3rd person present: stoops; past tense: stooped; past participle: stooped; gerund or present participle: stooping
1.
bend one's head or body forwards and downwards.
"he stooped down and reached towards the coin"
synonyms: bend down, bend, lean over, lean down, kneel, crouch down, squat down, hunker down, hunch down; More
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"Linda stooped to pick up the bottles"
lower, bend, incline, bow, duck
"he stooped his head"
have the head and shoulders habitually bent forwards.
"he tends to stoop when he walks"
synonyms: hunch one's shoulders, walk with a stoop, be round-shouldered More
"he tends to stoop when he walks"
2.
lower one's moral standards so far as to do something reprehensible.
"Craig wouldn't stoop to thieving"
synonyms: lower oneself, sink, descend, resort; More
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Re: What exactly does "awesome" mean anyway?
And elderly I am - with all my teeth still and no cane...yet...great link! thanks and I thought I was the only one to notice the "awesome" crisis!StroppyChops wrote:Always happy to agree with the elderly.dagenham wrote:With respect, my friend, I beg to differ - it started in the late 90's as a widely used adjective. Truly began to be dominate within a few years and now is like an International virus...StroppyChops wrote:I have Filipino mates, I'm pretty confident they all learned American English listening to those bloody awful language tapes used in the 70s and 80s (and still, in my first hand experience, used in high schools in China) and I think 'Ossum' might have been one of the included slang words.
Oh, and good to see we're adding to the already copious online commentary on the abuse of the word.
https://www.google.com.kh/search?q=the+ ... 2&ie=UTF-8
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Re: What exactly does "awesome" mean anyway?
And before that it was 'Groovy'.dagenham wrote:Decades ago the dominate word (in place of Awesome) was "Swell!".
Those were the days my friend,
We thought they'd never end,
We'd sing and . . . ..
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Re: What exactly does "awesome" mean anyway?
And apparently we're at risk of the 'dominate' word becoming "sweet", or in the case of Phnom Penh apartment listings, "cute".Username Taken wrote:And before that it was 'Groovy'.dagenham wrote:Decades ago the dominate word (in place of Awesome) was "Swell!".
Those were the days my friend,
We thought they'd never end,
We'd sing and . . . ..
The misuse I despise is "Right?" as though the listener is asking you to agree with what you just told them because they thought it first.
Bodge: This ain't Kansas, and the neighbours ate Toto!
Re: What exactly does "awesome" mean anyway?
Right! I hate it too, eh?StroppyChops wrote:And apparently we're at risk of the 'dominate' word becoming "sweet", or in the case of Phnom Penh apartment listings, "cute".Username Taken wrote:And before that it was 'Groovy'.dagenham wrote:Decades ago the dominate word (in place of Awesome) was "Swell!".
Those were the days my friend,
We thought they'd never end,
We'd sing and . . . ..
The misuse I despise is "Right?" as though the listener is asking you to agree with what you just told them because they thought it first.
Winston Churchill said, "Have a cigar, a glass of brandy, pet your dog and get a blow job daily for a productive and fulfilling life"
Re: What exactly does "awesome" mean anyway?
Username Taken wrote:And before that it was 'Groovy'.dagenham wrote:Decades ago the dominate word (in place of Awesome) was "Swell!".
I really miss that word and use it sometimes in a sweetly-sad-sickly nostalgic way...oh well...what about bithcin'? epic? grand?
"cool" is now global and trustworthy - multi-use...
"brilliant" is UK-centric...
Those were the days my friend,
We thought they'd never end,
We'd sing and . . . ..
Winston Churchill said, "Have a cigar, a glass of brandy, pet your dog and get a blow job daily for a productive and fulfilling life"
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Re: What exactly does "awesome" mean anyway?
Don't forget rad.
That was rad dude.
That was rad dude.
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Re: What exactly does "awesome" mean anyway?
Some more...
far out, man!
You know?
Just chill
No worries, mate
The Penh
Motherfucker has gained acceptance. When I was at pun school, the use of a word was a guarantee of being thrashed within an inch of you life, now it's probably in regular use in polite society
far out, man!
You know?
Just chill
No worries, mate
The Penh
Motherfucker has gained acceptance. When I was at pun school, the use of a word was a guarantee of being thrashed within an inch of you life, now it's probably in regular use in polite society
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Re: What exactly does "awesome" mean anyway?
I'm looking forward to the new era when Hollywood forgets "Oh... my... (wait for it)... GOD!" because all I hear is "Wait... for... (be silent now, I'm acting here)... me." I don't think there's a more attention-pulling phrase in existence right now. Real people seem to have moved on, but the media and entertainment industry surely haven't.
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Re: What exactly does "awesome" mean anyway?
Awesome is a not so awesome way of saying "Grouse". Mexicans and Croweaters will probably remember, it was a grouse word but!
http://www.ozatwar.com/ozatwar/aussieslang.htm#g
http://www.ozatwar.com/ozatwar/aussieslang.htm#g
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