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ITT: Words that have been abused so hard as to lose their original meaning and significance.

'awesome'

>> No.882448

I think "pretentious" is the ultimate one. Especially on 4chan.

>> No.882447

"enormity" PROTIP: it does not mean ''largeness''.

>> No.882449

"hipster"

>> No.882454

"ironic"

>> No.882461

>>882454
/thread

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>>882454
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>> No.882472

Fail.

It's like it's not even a word anymore.

>> No.882474

'epic'

>> No.882477

Apparently

>> No.882478

Love.

>> No.882493

'epic'
'saga'
'nigger'

>> No.882499

awkward

>> No.882512

>>882454

seriously.

>> No.882513

>>882445
A friend once told me the Hebrew word that we translate as "awe" means something closer to "abject terror."

>> No.882515

"Like"

>> No.882518

Ignorant.

>> No.882550

terrific

>> No.882553

>>882513
Huh. The more you know...
>>882448
Britfag here. 'Pretentious' here - where I'm from anyway - is used just as much as and is synonymous with 'pompous'. Bastards.

>> No.882560

Terror

>> No.882561

Owned.

>> No.882564

Implying. Nobody ever distinguishes it from inferring.

>> No.882577

>>882564
>Implying. Nobody ever distinguishes it from inferring.

Ugh, tell me about it. The other day a teacher of mine got into a flaming argument with some guy who swore blind they meant the same thing. Sad, really.

>> No.882579

>>882577

> Inferring that the world gives a shit

>> No.882584

>>882579

Fuck you.

>> No.884972

>>882579
Oh lord

>> No.885010

>>882564
The only time I've heard the words mixed up is one time where they made a joke about it on the Simpsons.

>> No.885011

haven't scrolled down yet but I bet this has been posted many a time by now


"epic"

>> No.885021

WHY HASN'T ANYONE SAID RANDOM? FUCKING RETARDED CUNTS WHO SAY DUMB SHIT LIKE LLAMA AND SPORK AND PENGUIN AND NINJA AND THEN SAY 'LOL, I'M SO RANDOM EHKS DEE'

FUCK. YES I MAD

>> No.885075

>>885021
umad?

>> No.885079

I'm with pretentious too. You like reading books? Pretentious! You buy a coffee? Pretentious! You are fond of any specific book whatsoever? OMG YOU PRETENTIOUS FUCK WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE??

>> No.885093

>>885021
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>> No.885105

>>885079

I hate that too. Never encountered it in real life though...

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>>882447
Fuck you; yes it does. That's like saying "terrific" doesn't mean "amazing". It does, and it also means "frightful" or "inspiring terror."

And while we're on the subject, I would like it if everyone would stop bitching about the evolution of the language. Unless you speak the Indo-European protolanguage, you've really no basis for being prescriptivist on the grounds that your way of speaking was there first.

>> No.885140

>>882513
>>882553
ever heard of "shock and awe" ?

>> No.885143

My favorite example of this is "weird." Occasionally I'll find a writer that can still coax the original feeling of cold, creeping eerieness out of it, but usually it just means "not normal"

>> No.885146

>>885093
that's my least favorite copypasta

>> No.885147

>>882513
And the Russian for Ivan the Terrible actually translates more closely into awe-inspiring than terrible.

>> No.885160

>>882564
>Infer: to hint; imply; suggest.

>> No.885180

"nigger"

>> No.885187

epic

>> No.885710

>>885160
Sure
>>885187
>>885011
Read the thread you lazy faggots
>>885079
Anything old + popular = pretentious

>> No.885714

"Douche"

>> No.885718

god

>> No.885720

Fag

>> No.885731

"Pathetic"

>> No.885734

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that "cunt" is the only swear word that has not lost its edge.

>> No.885752

mate, or bruv, means nuffin anymore.

>> No.885889

Gay. What the hell happened to you, man?

>> No.885933

>>882564
"Infer has been used to mean “to hint or suggest” since the 16th century by speakers and writers of unquestioned ability and eminence: The next speaker criticized the proposal, inferring that it was made solely to embarrass the government. Despite its long history, many 20th-century usage guides condemn the use, maintaining that the proper word for the intended sense is imply and that to use infer is to lose a valuable distinction between the two words.
Although the claimed distinction has probably existed chiefly in the pronouncements of usage guides, and although the use of infer to mean “to suggest” usually produces no ambiguity, the distinction too has a long history and is widely observed by many speakers and writers. "

Maybe my brain's just not working today, but I'm still not quite getting the difference...

>> No.885976

>>885734
How about twat? Where I live, it's synonymous with "fag" in the way that douche bag guys call each other fag.

Cunt was the last naughty word I learned as a kid, so I really don't find it edgy at all. Then again I'm 18 so maybe no word is taboo any more, in this culture. Sorry, now I'm rambling.