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  1. 02-24-2012 06:40 AM #41
    leslee
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    It's true. Especially with teenagers and 20somethings. "Like" and "I mean." Sentences beginning with "I mean." It's an epidemic!

    Amazing is the other word I hear overused the most. Everything's amazing.

    "How's your oatmeal?"
    "Amazing!"
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  2. 02-24-2012 06:48 AM #42
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    "How's your oatmeal?"
    "Amazing!"
    Ha! That's it exactly. Even the most banal is pronounced "amazing" or "awesome."
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  3. 02-24-2012 06:56 AM #43
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    When I was at the Grand Canyon, I thought, "Well, this qualifies for awesome and amazing."
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    My teen daughter uses like in every blasted sentence. After a while I start coughing my head off every time she says it. I get the eye roll occasionally but she cuts down on the likes!
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  5. 02-24-2012 07:01 AM #45
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    Keep coughing, Keith. You're doing her a favor.
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  6. 02-24-2012 09:38 AM #46
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    floccinaucinihilipilification

    Speaking of word invention...

    'Jacob Rees-Mogg has made the record books with the use of floccinaucinihilipilification in the House of Commons - now the longest word in Hansard.

    The Conservative MP told Andrew Neil the 29-letter word meant the "actual habit of estimating is worthless" and that it "came to mind as it does from time to time".'

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17156658
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