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Thursday, April 12, 2012

This Post is Amazing and Awesome.

We have a problem. A big problem. A crisis has struck Americans everywhere and no one knows how to cure it. Surely you've heard of it. It's a bad disease known as, "The AmazingAwesome Disease" For those of you who do not get what I mean - this disease is caused by the uncreativity and illiteracy of Americans. Our vocabulary of adjectives has grown smaller and smaller. I have seen it in my family, I have seen it in my friends, I have seen it in strangers at the park. Everyone is catching this very contagious disease.

The problem? The most overused words in America are awesome/amazing. In everyday conversation, almost every sentence will have either one of these two adjectives. You hear it all over, "Oh that is an amazing outfit!", "Dude, you are so awesome!", "My new camera has amazing abilites!" We have fallen captive of this widespread disease.

So what, you may ask, can we do to save the world from this mayhem? Well, as someone who is guilty of excessive awesome usage (but not excessive awesomeness–that I can’t help), I have asked myself this question several times. And have finally made a cure. I call it:

The Amazing Cure guide of Awesomeness
 The following is a list of words I have put together as substitutes for either of these overused 
words.

astonishing
awe-inspiring
awe-struck
beautiful
breathtaking
brilliant
clever
cool
dazzling
epic
excellent
exceptional
exciting
fabulous
fantastical
great
groovy
heart-stopping
humbling
impressive
incredible
ingenious
magnificent
majestic
marvelous
mind-blowing
momentous
moving
out of this world
outstanding
overwhelming
phenomenal
powerful
remarkable
righteous
shazam
sick
simply divine
spectacular
spectagical
staggering
striking
stunning
stupendous
superb
sweet
terrific
the bees’ knees
the bomb
splendiferous
fantasmagorical
wonderful
wonderstriking
wondrous

I suggest you print out many copies of this and when you meet friends that have caught the AA disease you can help cure them. And if you have any other words to add to the list - write them in the comments below!
 
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4 comments:

  1. maZyApril 14, 2012 at 11:52 AM

    Dude!!! Now I gotta get my whiny text on cuZ some of dose wordZ are mine!!!!!!!
    But I'll letcha use em. CuZ, you know, I'm nice. Ish

    And yeah I know whatcha mean, but I can't give up amaZing. Sorry. It's my thang, you know dat...

    But I'll give you a few more, otay???

    Epicsome
    Fantagical
    bedaZZlment
    Wondersome
    Adorablness
    Disatrocity or distatrophy(both are the meaningish)
    Loathe
    Vex
    ditto
    Delectable
    Delectableness
    Wowitude

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    1. Maggie AmosApril 15, 2012 at 7:24 PM

      Yeah, I know that - I originally wrote the post with just the word awesome as the needed to be fixed minset, but then I thought of you and amaZing and added it for your sake. :P

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  2. Nostalgia vs. CatharsisApril 15, 2012 at 5:43 PM

    you do realize that cool, epic, sick, beautiful, fabulous, and sweet all fall into the same catagory, right? anywho, other notes, no one of our generation will appreciate "the bee's knees" but some other good words include:

    lacadaisical
    kick booty
    snap-and-a-half
    meh.
    awesomesauce
    witty
    neato-benito
    sweet fancy moses
    baconerrific
    mateotastic
    psychadelic
    deutsche mark (the german currency system, pronounced doy-ch)
    creamy (?)

    thats it. nice blog, tho

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    1. Maggie AmosApril 15, 2012 at 7:26 PM

      Yes, yes, I admit you are right. My bad. I did look up a list of synonyms for awesome and amazing and copy and pasted those and I only sort of scrolled over it so I didn't catch those ones.

      and thanks, I'm glad you like it

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