Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/10/05/nothing-is-worse-than-abysma.html
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I also suspect that “Brilliant” and “rubbish” are more common in BE than AE.
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We don’t use it as much. But there are plenty of overused words missing from that list. At one point there was a full-blown epidemic of things being “amazing” in architecture circles, to the point where these people were presumably unable to walk down the street without being struck dumb by a nice window reveal or a well-detailed slot drain.
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YouTube link (cued up): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxPsjrm1UFc&t=999
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The things that are Amazing are definitely better than the incredible things…I would also allow the amazeballs things are even better than that.
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Incredible is the highest? I can’t believe it!
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It’s a miracle miracle isn’t the top of the list. If you use miracle in everyday sentences you’re either a holy person or an idiot. Wait what did I just do to myself?
Appears to be missing “quite good”, “shite”, “bollocks”, “piss-poor” and “pile of wank”.
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Doubleplusincredible.
Doubleplusunincredible.
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That report - not too shabby, if you ask me.
Formidable! [/French accent]
During the NPR pledge drive today, I heard the phrase “our incredible reporting” and all I could think was how that’s an abysmal choice of words.
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Inconceivable!
Wait, does that mean what I think it means?
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“Dude” is always the right response.
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Did anyone else see the guy at 0:42?
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Yep; infertile.
Did you notice “average” came out almost exactly in the middle?
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