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

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'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.

Mildly irritating as the super trend is, it's nowhere near as bad as "blessed" and "making memories" OP. Those two are the preserve of smug humble-braggers. I instantly stop associating with blessed memory makers, whereas supers are still quite nice.

I’m in my 40’s yet find this thread super amusing ;)

@RustyBear can't help feeling you've been ignored. (Possibly for the sake being able to givin out about Americanism. Though I'd it's being used from everything it's annoying as it loses its impact.)

Now I find myself super saddened to discover I'm boring enough to be interested in the use of a hyphen by Jane Austen (or was it an editor?). I fear I may head down a worm hole; like i did once with Austin and Orwell semi-coln use! 🙄

Super excited!

Oh do fuck off you super twat!!

Another international sport import is "for sure" from F1.

In Nico Rosbergs last year, we decided we were going to put a quid in a pot each time he said it and see how much we had at the end of the season. Bloody glad we didn't, one interview a race in would have cost us about 8 quid.

For sure it was a bad idea!

The use of the word 'super' annoys me but not as much as the overuse of the word disgusting or discusting as I frequently see when something or someone is just mildly unacceptable.

No Julie you don't need to be disgusted with the bus driver because he asked you to fold your pushchair down, you can just be a bit annoyed.

And as for the over and incorrect use of literally...

For some reason, it annoys the hell out of me when adults use it, but I find it really cute when my children say it, especially my 7 year old. I just think .... awwww

Just remembered the 'awesome' trend - now that really does get my goat.

Squigean Jane Austen didn't replace every intensifier with super though. She didn't use it twice in every sentence she wrote. If she had done, she wouldn't have been published because limiting her range if expression to gushing repetition of the same word would have reduced them to completely banal one dimensional drivel.

Anything used to often loses impact and just becomes a metaphorical stone in the shoe if life.

It is super annoying.
Has no one noticed the decline of the 'st' sound? I hear a lot about shhtupid shhtudents these days. No one says St any more.

Like (I believe) Rusty, I'm an English teacher, and encourage students to use words like "super" instead of "very" and "really".
The use of "super" in an informal letter writing task would get a higher mark than a yawnsome "very". It's also modern usage, so shows the student is paying attention to the evolution of language.

Not sure a complete lack of punctuation in their written sentences would get them a good mark though. Or a sentence littered with spelling mistakes.

@Squigean - I was boring enough to be interested in your worm-hole, and found this , which does seem to indicate that the hyphen may have been introduced by an editor.

@TheCanterburyWhales - I was never a teacher, though I did work in a school and was once a librarian.

Agree completely OP!

I can ignore “super” but saying you’re excited “for” something, instead of “about” something for some reason brings me out in hives

I also hate "thankyou sooooooooooooo much". Just say "thankyou". Or "thankyou very much"
I first heard in on the Kardashians.

I have found my people! Every time there has been one of those 'phrases that annoy you' threads for the last couple of years, I have mentioned this. And no one else has agreed or said anything similar. I had concluded I was alone in finding super to be super irritating.

"Super" is vastly more overused by under 25 year olds than "very" though TheCanterburyWhales. Surely you're looking for range and variety in students' writing aren't you? Rewarding "super" over "very" is intensely subjective.

"Super" is super overused. "Very" and "really" aren't super overused by under 25 year olds. It's super super to use super high numbers of super different words. It's super dull to use super all the time no matter how super down with the kids the super modern word "super" is.

Ooh, I do this and am trying to break the habit. It is super hard!

I think I started off using it with a bit of irony, but it slipped into my regular lexicon...

Thunderbolt I'm sure I've done the same!

Comes from German originally. Became popular in US before it did in the UK.

Because there are trends in language just as there are trends in clothing. Don't worry, it will probably pass (to be replaced by something else which you may find equally annoying).

Has no one noticed the decline of the 'st' sound? I hear a lot about shhtupid shhtudents these days.

Yup - this is super, annoying!

It's an age thing really though. When you're young, you embrace new slang and language trends. The older you get, the more annoying they get. My job and areas of interest make me fascinated by them, but I'm not immune to being annoyed by some of them.

“Excited for” is SUPER annoying. And wrong

Yes true @thelongdarkteatimeofthesoul. (I did try to make that point about over use in my post; but seem to have totally mangled the sentence. "Though I'd it's being used from everything it's annoying as it loses its impact." was supposed to be "Though if is being used for everything it's annoying as it loses its impact." - I blame working late, getting up too early and auto correct on that mess!.

However, RustyBear pointed out the fact Jane Austin used it in response posts about it being an Americanisation. Not about frequency of use.

@RustyBear I'll look at that with interest (once I figure out how to zoom in on the text on my phone). I did read (when in my semi-colon worm hole) her high usage of semi-colon were down to an editor (she used dashes, he replaced them with semi-colons).

Squigean ah sorry I guess so - but all Americanisms come from somewhere, and most of those that don't come from other languages come from the English spoken somewhere in Britain or Ireland. A lot of Americanisms are probably 18th century British English which hasn't evolved in the USA, like the also jarring "gotten" which had dropped out of use in British English by Jane Austen's time I think, but was in use in British English before that

It's childish and very silly.