# Words/expressions I want to be eliminated from usage RIGHT NOW TODAY ENOUGH ALREADY!

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**Created:** [September 5, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609 "2014-09-05T20:02:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/401 "2015-01-01T00:02:21Z")

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What if its neither? “Amazingly” to mean _very_ is about the least useful or interesting application of “amazing.”

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/402 "2015-01-01T01:44:47Z")

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> [@Peremensoe](#):
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> What if its neither? “Amazingly” to mean _very_ is about the least useful or interesting application of “amazing.”

I agree. Amazingly WHAT? Neither “amazing” nor “amazingly” alone tells you anything.

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**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/403 "2015-01-01T01:51:04Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> I agree. Amazingly WHAT? Neither “amazing” nor “amazingly” alone tells you anything.

No, I disagree. It tells you they were amazed. To be amazed is a mind-state in its own right, not just a superlative of something else.

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**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/404 "2015-01-01T01:56:26Z")

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Which is not to say that “the new restaurant was amazing” generally describes such a state. They just mean it was quite good.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/405 "2015-01-01T02:26:51Z")

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Has anyone mentioned yet the overusage (or _any_ usage) of the word “insane” to mean (as best I can figure) simply “remarkable” or maybe “remarkably strange” or something? You see it a lot on sites like Cracked and Mental Floss.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-expressions-i-want-to-be-eliminated-from-usage-right-now-today-enough-already/697609/406 "2015-01-01T02:49:27Z")

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Sorry, “amazing” doesn’t convey anything informative or interesting to me as the listener. If you want to gaze at your navel and contemplate the \*amazing \*restaurant, blind date, or touchdown, you can do that alone, but I want more than a one-word label for your state of mind-- I want details.

In other news, [Esquire](http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/50-things-to-leave-behind-2015??src=rss)online has an article with additional words/expressions to hate. The comments are good, too.

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