The word ‘awesome’ has been be-littled by overuse. I remember Ruud Udderhaaf pointing this out many long years ago while watching American television programmes and these days I see it all the time on the Internet.
It is usually found in blog post comments, generally on the kind of blog post that consists of lists, the top ten this or that, screenshots of the top ten minimal websites for example, you’ve seen the kind of thing I mean. There is nearly almost always one comment that says:
Awesome round up, thanks guys.
Is it really? Does it inspire awe? According to the Random House Dictionary definition at dictionary.com, the word awe means:
an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like: in awe of God; in awe of great political figures.
Seeing the Taj Mahal for the first time or watching a baby being born would surely inspire awe. But the top ten websites for Photoshop tutorials? I don’t think so.
That is one of my most despised words. It is up there with ‘totally’ [which apparently has to be pronounced as 'todally'?]
A todally awesome post, Hava.
LOL Grandad, thanks for the comment.. it’s like, OMG.. todally A.. LMAO
LOL!