To be losing my rag with the word 'super'?

[Manumission]

Even MN is infested; 'super cute', 'super excited', 'super fun'.

I can only hear it in a dreadful voice and it's grating.

How have so many otherwise intelligent adults so thoroughly adopted this in so short a space of time?

X post Julia.

It's morphing in my head now from LA drawl to Home Counties, Head Girl 'Sooooper'.

Still as annoying as fuck

Is this an acceptable use?

"How are you today?"
"Super! Thank you. You?"

I like it. 'Very' is super boring.

Yes, fine that's not a qualifier.

I forgot to specify qualifier didn't I?

This is a very specific whinge I'm staging.

I say this. I can't stop it.... it's like the Friends "I love that. NOT" it's irritating but I keep doing it.

it's like the Friends "I love that. NOT" it's irritating but I keep doing it.

Good grief, please stop.

Super duper trooper is now going round and round my head. Cheers Manumission

Super Trouper beams are gonna blind me
But I won't feel blue
Like I always do
Because somewhere in the crowd there's you

See now it's in my head

YES!

DH and i were saying a couple of nights ago how bloody annoying super this and super that is to listen to. It was mainly gushing teens doing it IIRC. Super cold, super excited, super irritating!

Mine too now. Damn both of you

YANBU! I find myself using it often and become super irritated, but I can't seem to stop myself.
I've been very ranty lately about the way the English language is evolving, this is just another irritating new expression.

Do you think it's spread to the adults from the teens Lai?

It's babyish and very annoying.

Someone here was horribly offended by "losing my rag" a few years ago. Apparently it's not allowed. Some people are super sensitive.

Losing my rag is offensive

Makes as much sense as the phrase tear them a new one. That seems to put people's backs up aswell

I agree, the overuse of super is annoying, but I can cope with it.

On the other hand, what is going on with people using "mortified" when they actually mean "horrified"???! Its absolutely everywhere at the moment!

Mortified means extremely ashamed or embarrassed, eg. I walked out of the loo and didn't realise I had my skirt tucked in my knickers - I was mortified!

Horrified means to be very scared or to be in great shock, eg. I was horrified when the giant man eating spider jumped out of the sink at me

Whereas these numpties would have said "I was mortified when then giant man eating spider...

I've seen in some really inappropriate contexts lately, where if the people getting it wrong had realised what they'd actually said, then they really would have been embarrassed.

I think most of the most annoying language traits do, OP.

3 of my 4 are teens or just past teens. The youngest one tends to pick up a few cringy bits and think - then weeks later i hear in creep into adults speech.

Mall. Shopping bloody Mall is one of them. Tore a strip off DD and said it's Shopping Center in this house! (a la league of gentlemen) and then a couple of weeks later MIL goes and says it! And ''butt' - that too started with DCs and cropped up a convo with adult relatives recently. It's BUM!

and breathe.

and then a couple of weeks later MIL goes and says it!

No hope in your house

I don't mind the word super. "Losing my rag," on the other hand, is on my list of most loathed phrases.

What's wrong with 'losing one's rag'?

I just dislike the phrase. I'm not planning to mount a campaign to ban it or anything.

We'll give us a clue why you loathe it

www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/60/messages/706.html

english.stackexchange.com/questions/4603/whimsical-lost-the-rag-origins-and-just-what-is-the-rag-anyway

I've googled and I'm still baffled.

Well^

Yy to butt!*

My dc say "store" instead of shop sometimes, and I don't know how to feel about that.

*theres a sentence I didn't think I'd be typing on a Monday afternoon.

Oh yes one of mine says 'store' 😕