Monday January 09, 2012 at 1:26

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latimes: Trying to drive a stake through a conversational staple: British-born poet and journalist John Tottenham says that saying “awesome” in his presence is like “waving a crucifix in a vampire’s face.” This Valley girl says… awesome. Photo: John Tottenham holds an anti-awesome bumper sticker at Stories bookstore in Echo Park. Credit: Christina House / For The Times This is exactly how I feel about the word “amazing”, which in recent times has been horrendously (and annoyingly) overused to describe things that are in fact, NOT actually amazing. 

latimes:

Trying to drive a stake through a conversational staple: British-born poet and journalist John Tottenham says that saying “awesome” in his presence is like “waving a crucifix in a vampire’s face.”

This Valley girl says… awesome.

Photo: John Tottenham holds an anti-awesome bumper sticker at Stories bookstore in Echo Park. Credit: Christina House / For The Times

This is exactly how I feel about the word “amazing”, which in recent times has been horrendously (and annoyingly) overused to describe things that are in fact, NOT actually amazing. 

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  1. seemorun086 reblogged this from latimes
  2. meggieontoast reblogged this from anditemporary and added:
    Dear John Tottenham, Kindly kiss the AWESOME butts of all of Nerdfighteria. Sincerely, Meggie DFTBA!!!
  3. thiscagedheart reblogged this from latimes and added:
    well … i think he will have...problem with ME .. coz i’m AWESOME
  4. viciousneutral reblogged this from latimes and added:
    exactly how I feel about the word “amazing”, which...recent times has been horrendously...
  5. lisety reblogged this from latimes
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  7. mommaofthelight reblogged this from manually-breathing
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  9. equallyfree reblogged this from manually-breathing and added:
    i didn’t know that wanting the general public to use the english language correctly meant you’re pretentious. i think...
  10. agentstansfield reblogged this from latimes
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  12. sarahstocracy reblogged this from latimes and added:
    :(
  13. redwinesuccess reblogged this from manually-breathing and added:
    pretentious or not, he’s right. we overuse words and weaken their meaning. “awesome”, “ignorant”, “depressed”, etc. are...
  14. thisstuffesbueno reblogged this from socalfeminist and added:
    People like this are such dickheads. If people use a word (granted one that is not some type of offensive hate slur) but...
  15. manually-breathing reblogged this from anditemporary and added:
    I was just about to say something about this guy’s level of pretension.
  16. daiziess reblogged this from anditemporary and added:
    He must have A LOT of time on his hands if he chooses to fight the overuse of a common word that can be used...
  17. anditemporary reblogged this from socalfeminist and added:
    People overuse the word “random” a lot too. Almost to the same extent that people misuse the word “ironic,” although...
  18. socalfeminist reblogged this from latimes and added:
    Hmm, interesting. There has been...lot of fanfare surrounding the word awesome
  19. ditzybruschetta reblogged this from latimes
  20. lafrondeuse reblogged this from latimes and added:
    awesome is one of my favorite words. I do abuse it so.
  21. hovikstad reblogged this from latimes
  22. fourierprincess reblogged this from latimes and added:
    I guess that’s one way...get attention if you’re...poet....
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