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Has "tremendous" taken over from "super" ?
BlizzardUK
03-01-2017
One thing that used to niggle me was when Americans would say "super" in front of things, often said twice. Like "he was super super talented". Some would say it all the time. Now though I hear the word "tremendous" said all the time.

Any words mildly annoy you, perhaps irrationally, when you hear them repeatedly used ?
WhatJoeThinks
03-01-2017
Absolutely.
himerus
03-01-2017
Unbelievabl.e
grumpyscot
03-01-2017
Awesome and Uber are two americanisms we could well do without.
Fizzbin
03-01-2017
https://youtu.be/6ajEW9kjufM?t=1m9s
Shalamara
03-01-2017
Gotten annoys me - I know it was used once long ago in England but it now seems to be creeping back into use here from American influence.

I reserve most of my hatred for could/would/should OF instead of HAVE. Shudders.
Leicester_Hunk
03-01-2017
I can't stand "super" in that sense. Someone I know talks about his girlfriend (ex actually) being "super prideful" - ie she won't have him back

Super means brilliant, excellent, bloody marvellous. Not a comparator.
Elyan
03-01-2017
Tony and David started all of this on The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin.
henryporter
03-01-2017
Anything is better than the awful "awesome"
coughthecat
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by BlizzardUK:
“One thing that used to niggle me was when Americans would say "super" in front of things, often said twice. Like "he was super super talented". Some would say it all the time. Now though I hear the word "tremendous" said all the time.

Any words mildly annoy you, perhaps irrationally, when you hear them repeatedly used ?”

The word 'Americanism'!
Nosedive
03-01-2017
Hugely. Everyone is always hugely talented. Or hugely something or other.
Andy2
03-01-2017
'Awesome'. The proper meaning of this word is 'to inspire awe and wonder'. Sadly, most young people use it when they actually mean 'vaguely good' or 'pretty decent'.

And has anyone noticed how 'passionate' everyone is?
Posh Bloke
03-01-2017
and everything that politicians spout these days has to include the word Robust somewhere
Turbulence
03-01-2017
It's Jeremy Vine and his bloody Tremendous Knowledge Dave nonsense.
sodavlac
03-01-2017
How long has that "super" thing being going on? I seem to remember a time in the late 80's or early 90's when if posh people or yuppies were getting the pee taken taken out of them on tv that they'd be portrayed as saying "supah" a lot.

For some reason I want say Fergie, (the royal one) was connected with it all.

If it did come from America, I suppose they were some of the kinds of people who would have adopted it first. Trans-atlantic travel was less accessible in those days for your average Joe and it took more wealth to get over there.

Originally Posted by Turbulence:
“It's Jeremy Vine and his bloody Tremendous Knowledge Dave nonsense.”

Ha! I like Dave, he's a bit of a local Manchester legend. There used to be a radio station called Piccadilly 1152 with a late-night phone in hosted by James Stannage. On a bank holidays in the 90's he'd often have Dave on as a special show and people would call in, asking him questions to try and stump him. Whenever he got one right Stannage would say "Tremendous knowledge, Dave". Might even have been where people first started calling him that.

I like his back-story too. He claims that he used tro make a living touring pubs and playing the old quiz machines that they used to have in them for a living, finding it more and more difficult as he'd regularly get banned for winning too much.

Big Manchester United fan too, and as I'm one as well I'm biased towards him. I don't really go anymore but would sometimes see him at the match when I did.
Cheruman
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by Fizzbin:
“https://youtu.be/6ajEW9kjufM?t=1m9s”

I didn't get where I am today by posting YouTube links.
el_bardos
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by grumpyscot:
“Awesome and Uber are two americanisms we could well do without.”

How can the use of a German word be an Americanism?
Harvey_Specter
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by BlizzardUK:
“One thing that used to niggle me was when Americans would say "super" in front of things, often said twice. Like "he was super super talented". Some would say it all the time. Now though I hear the word "tremendous" said all the time.

Any words mildly annoy you, perhaps irrationally, when you hear them repeatedly used ?”

Not as far as Kal-El stands anyway.
SepangBlue
03-01-2017
Amazing is far too overused these days .. everything's got to be 'amazing!'
RebelScum
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by Harvey_Specter:
“Not as far as Kal-El stands anyway.”

Under current management that particular S stands for Shit.
davelovesleeds
03-01-2017
Tremendous, smashing ,great. .
sodavlac
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by SepangBlue:
“Amazing is far too overused these days .. everything's got to be 'amazing!'”

Saw a comedian talking about that once, saying that it didn't leave many words to describe truly amazing things.If this sandwich is amazing or that coffee awesome, then what could we say if aliens landed?
coughthecat
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by sodavlac:
“Saw a comedian talking about that once, saying that it didn't leave many words to describe truly amazing things.If this sandwich is amazing or that coffee awesome, then what could we say if aliens landed?”

Bleedin' immigrants!
SepangBlue
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by sodavlac:
“Saw a comedian talking about that once, saying that it didn't leave many words to describe truly amazing things.If this sandwich is amazing or that coffee awesome, then what could we say if aliens landed?”

" ***kin' hell!"

Either that, or "What took you so long?"
Miss XYZ
03-01-2017
Originally Posted by davelovesleeds:
“Tremendous, smashing ,great. .”

Damn you dave, I was just about to post that!! "Tremendous, smashing, great" just doesn't have the same ring to it at all, does it?!
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