Comments on: Five Adjectives You Should Be Using, Instead of “Amazing”

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:49:39 +0000

You had me in the palm of your hand until you came up with this non-word:

‘phenom’

My dear linguist, the noun complement to ‘phenomenal’ is ‘phenomenon.’

By: Brent Billock

Brent Billock — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:12:26 +0000

I pray you used “very unique” in jest. If you have a column on words and their use, you absolutely cannot be unaware that uniqueness is a binary condition. Either something is one-of-a-kind or it is not. There are no degrees of uniqueness.

This misuse is so common and absolutely drives me up a wall. So to preserve my respect for you, I’ll choose to believe that you chose to write it scherzando.

By: Judith Haber

Judith Haber — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:51:37 +0000

I was surprised to see ‘very unique’ used here. Unique is not modifiable. It does snot mean ‘unusual’; it means ‘the only one’.
Physician, heal thyself!

By: Laura Ricketts

Laura Ricketts — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:41:08 +0000

I would say that this was an amazing commentary,and that as a result; I clearly need to receive future musings. Although I am not a man, nor do I aspire to be a better one, I do love intelligent, articulate conversation. Write on!

By: Mary Dabney

Mary Dabney — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:44:58 +0000

Bagittity. Can be used to describe many manners of bagitutude

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By: Haitham

Haitham — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:24:20 +0000

Wonderful!

By: student

student — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:29:03 +0000

this post was amazing.

By: soo

soo — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:08:40 +0000

I’m a particular fan of using the word spectacular. An old co-worker of mine used it all the time