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  • incorrect usage of 'super'
  • headfirst
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    Is it just me???

    eg. super fun, super excited, super happy,super good, super stoked

    I initially thought that this was non-native speakers keeping things simple and easy for themselves rather than using a range of adjectives or adverbs, but I’m seeing it more and more amongst native speakers. I’ve just heard David Harmon on Eurosport refer to the legend that is Thomas Voeckler as a ‘super crowd favourite’ which completely ruined the moment for me.

    This must be stopped! It’s super annoying!

    iDave
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    super sensitive?

    RobHilton
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    super post, headfirst

    Singlespeed_Shep
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqSlPQkz9Sw[/video]

    RobHilton
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    Souperbowl

    headfirst
    Free Member

    super post, headfirst

    You see, that is a totally acceptable application of the word! well done RH

    jordie
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    SuperMario he is just a plumber with a tache !!

    headfirst
    Free Member

    super sensitive?

    iDave I was planning on giving your diet a proper go starting tomorrow, after a feable attempt last year, but you’ve put me right off now!

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Sue Per
    Kins

    jota180
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    Talking of over-used words…

    Awesome thread 🙂

    bobbyg81
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    Incorrect use of super is bad. Worse than that is the other ‘s’ word. Stoked. Anytime I hear someone say theyre stoked I want to punch them repeatedly. Not far behind is saying things are ‘sick’ or that they are ‘psyched’. Arse-pieces!

    iDave
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    “iDave I was planning on giving your diet a proper go starting tomorrow, after a feable attempt last year, but you’ve put me right off now!”

    You staying fat won’t upset me you know 😉

    cynic-al
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    Are you lot grandparents FFS?

    chakaping
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    Noticed this creeping across the pond more than a year ago when my business partner said something was “super-fun”.

    I thought she’d been watching MTB videos or something.

    Time to up the ante and start using “meta” instead, now that “super” has gone mainstream, I reckon.

    Klunk
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ajEW9kjufM[/video]

    FeeFoo
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    I’m note sure it’s a new thing.

    It’d be strange if you were to just say “califragilisticexpialidocious”
    Makes no sense.

    brooess
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    It’s just the new word that people who think it’s important to look cool are using. By using it they are demonstrating they’re not cool, just (super)sheep.

    re Reggie Perrin clip, I fear that’s too close to the truth about a lot of management decisions

    scaredypants
    Full Member

    forget “super”, when you can be an uber-arse

    xherbivorex
    Free Member

    why care?
    really, why get bothered by something like this?

    headfirst
    Free Member

    why care?
    really, why get bothered by something like this?

    because somebody’s got to!
    Why care about anything?!

    SurroundedByZulus
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    Super Caley Go Ballistic Celtic Are Attrocious?

    colournoise
    Full Member

    Usually this kind of thing winds me up too.

    for some reason though, I quite like the use of “super” in this way.

    slainte 😳 rob

    noteeth
    Free Member

    It was pea-souper-foggy in Bristol the other morning – like, super-low-visibility.

    legend
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    I’m super stoked right now!

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgXObaM9i2Q[/video]

    Bregante
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    davidjones15
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    Excellent.

    CountZero
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    headfirst – Member
    why care?
    really, why get bothered by something like this?
    because somebody’s got to!
    Why care about anything?!

    There’s lots I care about. This, I can assure you, isn’t one of them. 🙄

    headfirst
    Free Member

    OH NO!!!!!!

    I’ve just referred to somebody as ‘super super lazy’!!!

    Kill me now!

    oddjob
    Free Member

    I quite like the (admittedly incorrect) use of the word super in this context.

    IGMC

    nealy
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    kayak23
    Full Member

    Language evolves super-fast in these times innit. Deal with it blud.
    🙂

    rkk01
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    Don’t see how it is incorrect…

    From Cambridge on-line dictionary

    super-
    prefix ( MORE THAN USUAL ) /su?.p?r-//-p?-/ prefix
    Definition
    larger, or more effective, or more powerful, or more successful than usual; very or more than usually
    a supercomputer
    a supermodel
    the super-rich
    superfine stockings

    or…

    super-
    prefix ( OVER ) /su?.p?r-//-p?-/ prefix
    Definition
    over; above
    a superstructure

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