Adjusting to Amazing

Fiorella has come to terms with "amazing" and "awesome," although they drove her out of her mind at first.  Everyone was using them, especially the vocabulary-challenged home-buyers on HGTV. Everything from floors to ceilings to swimming pools to kitchens to toilets were amazing or awesome. So were beauty-contest winners, actors, politicians, children, pets and God.

But, as a linguist, Fiorella knows that superlatives and emphatics come and go, and many don't even make sense--like "pretty" being used to mean "very"--so she decided to make her peace with the newcomers.

Amazing, right?

As the Pendulum Swings

Interesting the way trends come and go, then circle back again.  Beards and bustiers, for instance. And have you noticed we're not using profanity and potty words as much any more?  Yeah, after forty years of going strong, they've lost their shock value.  But, %$#*, that won't last long.