Because we over-exaggerate everything so much and use the superlatives so often that positive words have ceased to have any meaning.
It annoys me to see words being stripped of meaning, and the recipients of those words being traduced. To me a hero is someone like Andrew Parker who put his own life at risk to save twenty others when the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized.
That's why us intellectual types need to start upping the ante. We just need to find more obscure words to start using to describe things with more focus on meaning, until they start becoming mainstream and bastardized as well.
Then we just invent our own language and go live under the sea.
It annoys me to see words being stripped of meaning, and the recipients of those words being traduced. To me a hero is someone like Andrew Parker who put his own life at risk to save twenty others when the Herald of Free Enterprise capsized.
Losing weight is commendable but not heroic.
Then we just invent our own language and go live under the sea.