there are a few of them that I'm getting mighty tired of. One is awesome. It's lost its punch and is used to describe everything from the dog's poop in the park to the new OPI fingernail polish color. In other words, this descriptor is really totally useless other than to let the listener know that the speaker finds something likeable.
Another lame word is amazing, the other attempt to convey, well, awesomeness. It's amazing how many people use this word to convey how awesome they think skateboarding is. (See what's happening here?)
And then there's the ubiquitous use of like. Even people older than 17 are using this word to sort of suggest that they're saying something is kind of real as in: "We were, like, sick of going to the zoo."
So are they just approaching a state of being sick of going to the zoo or are they in fact and in reality sick of going to the zoo? It's as if people are afraid to describe their own reality.
And how about facebook? This has become a lifestyle of dubious value. Why in the world do people post the ugly reality of their lives for all the world to see? What's more curious is that they don't even use the word like to do so. facebook lives suddenly become amazingly real and available for anyone to view and judge. What happened to the reality of pride and privacy?
You get extra credit if you find the most uses of irony in this blog post.
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