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fucking lmfaoa

>> No.14991703
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How does shit like this even happen?

>> No.14992049

>>14991703
I imagine people started using it ironically to mock untalented losers. It eventually adopted the ironic meaning.

>> No.14992093

>>14992049
Just like irony doesn't sarcasm, retard. Go learn to write >>>/lit/
Oh, wait. lit, I....

>> No.14992105
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>>14991693
The word when taken literally means "outstanding". Things can be outstandingly good or bad. The word "awful" has a similar history and originally meant "full of awe" as a good thing. People probably started to use it in the sarcastic sense and that became the dominant usage.

>> No.14992114

>>14991693
egregious retard

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>>14991693
>Not the heckin copyrightino!

Copyright is criminal.

>> No.14992149

>>14992105
So anglo-saxons are retards who can't use words properly?
Dude !!!! literaly cheks out!!!

>> No.14992185

>>14991703
Far as I know it's because of Gauss. In differential geometry Gauss' Theorema Egregium tells us a Gaussian curvature is an intrinsic invariant of a surface in Euclidean space. Normies couldn't grasp it so "egregious" started to be used ironically...
>at least that's what my cosmology professor told me :/

>> No.14992201

>>14991693
how drole

>> No.14992222

>>14991693
Anything that stands out, or is painfully obvious
an egregious error, the team's egregious leader
The second sense is rare because the canaille tends ever toward pejoratives. Though incredible's evil twin incredulous is fraternal, the egregii are identical.
>in b4 reddit, morons

>> No.14993342

>>14991693
In Spanishi, egregious mantaines its kaló meaning of goodness.

>> No.14993359

>>14992105
is that comic sans? looks surprisingly good desu, might tri it myself

>> No.14993369
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>>14991693
Awful - full of awe
Means something bad

Awesome - some awe
Means something good

>> No.14993499

>>14991703
Prescriptivists literally always lose

>> No.14993528

>>14993359
Yeah I use it because it's unironically easier on my eyes lmao

>> No.14993550

>>14993528
iirc its gud for people w/ dyslexia

>> No.14993834

>>14991703
its is happening with nonplussed as we speak

>> No.14993879

Terrifying - scary
Horrifying - scary
Terrible - bad
Horrible- bad
Horrific - scary
Terrific - very good

>> No.14993883

>>14993834
>nonplussed
sheeeeeeet son i didnt even kno of its "legit" meaning LOL

>> No.14993938

>>14993834
how strange

>> No.14993958

>>14993944
no i dont think it will happen to the word literally, some people are still quite militant pedantic about it (rightfully)

>> No.14993991

>>14991693
very invaluable and awesome post anon