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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!


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 2:14 pm
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super sensitive?


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 2:14 pm
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super post, headfirst


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 2:15 pm
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Posted : 04/03/2012 2:17 pm
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Souperbowl

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Posted : 04/03/2012 2:18 pm
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super post, headfirst

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


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 2:19 pm
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SuperMario he is just a plumber with a tache !!


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 2:21 pm
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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!


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 2:21 pm
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Sue Per
Kins


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 2:23 pm
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Talking of over-used words…

Awesome thread 🙂


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 2:24 pm
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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!


 
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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 😉


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 2:30 pm
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Are you lot grandparents FFS?


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 3:00 pm
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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.


 
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Posted : 04/03/2012 3:05 pm
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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.


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 3:11 pm
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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


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 3:23 pm
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forget "super", when you can be an uber-arse


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 3:43 pm
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why care?
really, why get bothered by something like this?


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 4:17 pm
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why care?
really, why get bothered by something like this?

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


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 4:50 pm
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Super Caley Go Ballistic Celtic Are Attrocious?


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 4:54 pm
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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


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 4:55 pm
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It was pea-souper-foggy in Bristol the other morning - like, super-low-visibility.


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 4:59 pm
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I'm super stoked right now!


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 6:41 pm
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Excellent.
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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. 🙄


 
Posted : 04/03/2012 6:48 pm
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OH NO!!!!!!

I've just referred to somebody as 'super super lazy'!!!

Kill me now!


 
Posted : 05/03/2012 2:42 pm
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I quite like the (admittedly incorrect) use of the word super in this context.

IGMC


 
Posted : 05/03/2012 2:49 pm
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Posted : 05/03/2012 2:52 pm
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Language evolves super-fast in these times innit. Deal with it blud.
🙂


 
Posted : 05/03/2012 3:03 pm
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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


 
Posted : 05/03/2012 3:10 pm