I heard it constantly starting about 6 months ago, but recently it has stopped, hopefully never to return. Others I would like to disappear would include:
Literally
Back in the day
End of the day
24/7
I heard it constantly starting about 6 months ago, but recently it has stopped, hopefully never to return. Others I would like to disappear would include:
Literally
Back in the day
End of the day
24/7
I'm new here but I had to say Bekele is literally perfect.
add "kind of like" to your list.
He is, but I don't believe I've said or written "literally" in my entire life.
Exaggerations like this aren't a new thing. "Awesome" is my generation's even more extreme version of this. What would you like to drink? "Oh, a Pepsi would be awesome." Really? A glass of Pepsi would inspire awe? When your drink is presented to you, are you going to be left breathless and unable to find the words to adequately explain the experience to anyone who wasn't present on this life changing day?
The power of a hurricane is awesome. The devastation of a nuclear weapon is awesome. Viewing earth from a hundred thousand miles away during a spacewalk would be awesome. These are the kinds of things that "awesome" is meant to describe.
Why do some people say “everyone” when they mean “a few people”?
If remember to take out the trash 10 days in a row, but forget on the 11th day, my wife will say I "always" forget.
If (I) remember to take out the trash 10 days in a row...
I can't imagine living in a house where it is necessary to take out the trash every single day.
cheers.
What about "Everything like that"?:
Since I live in flyover territory, trends arrive here last, and I haven't noticed this until January 2020 or so. Now it is everywhere.
Yes, younger females tend to say it more often, but I hear many males saying it, too. And it isn't said with a drawn-out vocal fry; people chirp it really quick. Like a tic, and like a tic, I don't think they realize they are responding with it.
"Yes, I'd like some ketchup with that."
"Perfect."
"My grandmother died last night."
"Perfect."
This word seems to have replaced "A-MAY-ZING!" which was used mainly as an adjective throughout the 2000s-2010s, but "Perfect" is a response.
Words such as "awesome" are still overused, but I can pinpoint the beginning of their abuse: the year 1982. This is due to Valley Speak having gone nationwide because of its use in the films Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Last American Virgin and Valley Girl. As for "Perfect!", I have no clue where that came from. Was it from a TV show or a movie?
i use it to as a simple response in the affirmative. i guess it just sounds more positive than the old stand by of "sounds good"
Literally nobody says that
Perfecto! wrote:
Your post is perfect.
Perfect
I've noticed others pick up on using cool phrases which I use. If you're perceived as a cool person, others will start using the same words and phrases that you do.
Groovy wrote:
He is, but I don't believe I've said or written "literally" in my entire life.
You literally just did.
That's insane, literally.
Shark wedding wrote:
My testicle to scrodem proportions are perfect
WTF is a scrodem?
Someone at work kept saying “absolutely” which drove me nuts . Now she switched to using the word “perfect” all the time instead of “absolutely.” Now, that word is driving me nuts every time she says it. I live in the real world where rarely things are absolute or perfect. So this language to me feels abusive to my psyche.
Emma
I thought it might be something that service employees are doing to annoy people.