Another modish phrase we hear all the time is “unbelievable”. This really has been done to death over the last few years, but still people persist in using this meaningless phrase to describe any event in their hum-drum lives that is ever so slightly out of the ordinary.
Every time a young person or child is interviewed on TV (and when isn’t this happening these days?) it’s only a matter of seconds before they open their mouths and out comes this word. It’s usually followed swiftly by “amazing”, or “fantastic”, or even “awesome”.
These words are proper when used with restraint and in a suitable context, but when they are used to describe some event that is usually not only commonplace but actually boring, then I for one have to make a protest.
Can’t the morons who come out with these words all the time find some other words to express their feelings? I’m not getting at them personally. They’ve been let down by our ludricous educational system and its hairy, crackpot teachers. So can’t someone tell these unfortunate people that there are other words in the English language that can describe their feelings better?
Philip Gegan
