why are so many things 'super' i.e super excited ? it's irritating !

[littlepaddypaws]

'super close to dd' 'super thrilled we're going on holiday' wtf ? it's up there with 'blessed' and 'making memories' shit allmake me feel murderous.

I think it’s an Americanism, loads of Youtubers seem to use it. It’s mildly irritating but young people have always adopted slang and expressions that irritate their parents, ‘twas ever thus!

Completely agree! It irritates me too!

My 4 yo says it all the time, super cool, super tasty etc

Thought she got it from someone at nursery but it’s probably that feckin Ryan on YouTube

just read 'super paranoid' on here, fgs, super fuck off

It's extremely irritating, mainly because some people appear to have list the ability to use any other intensifier whatsoever.

It makes language less rich.

It's super bloody irritating.

Almost as bad as friends on Twitter who type "y'all" as though they're relatives of the Dukes of Hazard, when they've never ventured further than Wolverhampton.

I always say super. Super excited, super busy etc
I think it makes me sound enthusiastic about life and not just soldering on so you speak

preferable to peppering everything with crude language

croc

@CrocodileFrock

I say y’all

I wouldn't mind if it was "the youth" Petrichor11 - obviously they are meant to make annoying language choices which sound groundbreaking, edgy or on trend or whatever to others of the same age... It's people my age who used to have decent vocabularies replacing their wide range of options with "super" this and "super" that, and forgetting that "excited for" and "excited about" convey different meanings in British English, even though they've managed to use each appropriately for the previous 45 years...

It’s rather interesting how language has evolved even over the last 2 decades. My now dh nearly didn’t go on the 2nd date I asked him on as apparently I said super too often. He felt I was a bit Sloane Ranger because of using the word!!!

First world problem! Doesn’t bother me really although ‘blessed’ does because they’re usually humble braggers too.

Yes it is irritating. I watched the American series Easy on Netflix recently and absolutely everything was super this and super that.

Frostylawns replacing very, extremely, terribly, immensely, really, incredibly, enormously and a slew of other options with just "super" isn't evolution it's decay, or Newspeak...

I think I use the word 'fucking' in the same way which is probably worse

Don't know about you but 'super excited' always screams MLM bot to me, along with 'living my best life'.

It's as if the whole thing has been written by Siri on speed. Just chuck in a few of these phrases, muddle them about in a cocktail shaker with a dash of delusion and a double measure of attention seeking, serve pumped through with hot air, and hey presto, you have Instagram.

:o

YABSU.

Not actually American, or not recent American, anyway, though I suppose Jane Austen might have got it from America....

"Elizabeth really believed all his expectations of felicity to be rationally founded, because they had for basis the excellent understanding, and super-excellent disposition of Jane"

Argh I hate this!

I doubt it @Reallybadidea.

'DD attends a super selective grammar school and is super skinny'

'DD attends a fucking selective grammar school and is fucking skinny'

preferable to peppering everything with crude language

Well fuck you, miss prissy arse

@thelongdarkteatimeofthesoul - you’re absolutely correct. I was a little bit of a nightmare then. Amazing what 20 years with a good partner can do for your vocabulary! I think it was probably the phrase “Gosh, that’s absolutely super” that did it for him . . . . .

Yes, I hate this trend. It makes my skin crawl. That, and people giving 110%, 150% etc. Fuck. Off.