Everything is wonderful!
Update: we’ve been told that not everyone agrees with that statement. What do you think about…
Everything (in this article) is (about words) Great! Better?
However, everything is great when you are part of a group.
We’ve also noticed that some people out there object to using the word in a way that’s not directly related to sublime.
In my day, the word “Awesome” was reserved for things like curing polio and walking on the Moon, not for food or TV shows.
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 13, 2018
We understand such anger in this regard. But we must also point out that, for many people who are preoccupied with the extended meaning of Great, that we are a descriptive dictionary. When faced with evidence of broad and specific use of semantics, we are forced to take note of it and proceed accordingly. Although we determine Great Because of both “inspiring awe” and “expression of amazement”, we also provide a definition for the informal usage of the word: “wonderful, extraordinary”. We do this because there are many examples of people, many of them well-educated, using Great in that exact way.
Of course, in the 1998 movie Armageddon, the asteroid blocks have a great target, hitting **all** major cities in the world.
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) February 15, 2013
Great not the only controversial word in scared family. Hester Lynch Piozzi, written in 1794, talks about the word terrible that it “should, however, be used with caution and with due regard for its importance; I have heard even educated ladies sometimes take the term too lightly in their casual conversation…” Where it was once used to mean “astonished,” terrible now mostly used as a simple synonym for offensive or bad.
Neil has an answer: “Scientific knowledge, like a state of mind, is a complete vaccine against those who speak in a pseudoscientific way… the human brain is terrible at interpreting things. what it went through…— Neil deGrasse Tyson (quoted), Neil degrasse Tyson & Jeffrey Simons, star2016
Not satisfied with only Great And terribleEnglish speakers also made rough adverbs terribleadds to the original meaning (“in a way that inspires awe”) a meaning with the pedestrian function of a mere booster (“excessive, extreme, very”).
I pressed the call button, handed the neatly folded lesson plan to the flight attendant, and said, “Please pass this message on to the pilot.” I can’t explain why, but it’s fun to say.— Neil deGrasse Tyson, The sky is not the limit2004
what is it about? scared inspire a lot of semantic drift? Perhaps that is the best question for philosophers. But going back to lexicography, are there any related words that retain their previous larger meaning? Definitely have: Great still has the meaning “inspiring awe”, and despite the fact that people use it as a variation of attractiveit still fits the work of both Jonas Salk and Buzz Aldrin.
In addition to our descriptive mission, we also seek to provide historical information about the use of a word. Therefore, it would be remiss if we did not mention the earliest meaning of . scared is “extreme fear”, which really doesn’t fit most of the things mentioned in this article. Although it is conceivable that a crowd in the 13th century would run screaming from footage of a moon walk. That would be pretty awesome to see.
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