super close, super excited, super upset, what is it with 'super' ?

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i'm missing the point but it always sounds like a teen speaking, 'i'm super close to xyz' why do people use it so much ? i've never heard anyone say it in rl [that i can remember] did it come from social media or the like ?
just find it iritating like many other so called 'trendy' phases.

I think it's come from reality TV! Made in Chelsea, Kardashian's and the like!

I was going to say Kardshians too , it’s the most used word by all the sisters , ever since that crappy series began

Do you find it super annoying?

go i wish it had stayed there then ! such a shite expression.

Yeah its like super-shite

DP is American and does this, maybe something to do with US kids TV!

super common on mn too

It was something I heard from Californians decades ago.

Think it just went mainstream later here.

Its a Californianism. Mildly annoying in the way a lot of imported US language is but I can't get too het up about this sort of thing. Language imports from other countries are as old as the hills, you can't do much about it.

It is an overused word, and YANBU for wishing to hear it less.

Same with
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Same as reaching out.

Oh thanks so much for reaching out.

It's the most wanker phrase in existence.

I've never seen The Kardashians and I've never heard anyone in real life use 'super' in that way. Do people really speak like that? I've only ever heard it on MN.

It's my number one hate and I don't usually get particularly worked up about americanisms. It's amazing how it's become so common so quickly - I remember reading a book about ten years ago where the main character mocked an american self help guide that used lots of 'super's by calling him a 'super tosser,' and the comedy came from the fact that it was literally never ever used in the UK and sounded so stupid. Yet five years later it was everywhere.
Why not just use 'very' or 'really' both do the same job perfectly well and don't make you sound like a super twat!

I am uber indifferent.

I think “super” sounds much more English than American, in a sort of battered-Barbour-pack-of-spaniels type way

Now rilly, as in, “I’m rilly rilly excited!” - that is kardashian speak all over. But I think Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie started it

It's a word I have always used on students' work when marking (for 20 years). I never knew why as I never use it in real life! Suddenly it's everywhere and not an old fashioned, 1950s praise word!

Super, smashing, great definitely more Reggie Perring than Kardashian to me. I use super a lot. I like it and will continue to use it appropriately

Perrin even

A few years ago it was the much lower class, British use of...'well'.

Well close, well excited, well upset etc

Nooo...@ShirleyPhallus, @Pieceofpurplesky @MulberryPeony - 'super!' on it's own is an very english, famous five, jolly hockey sticks old fashioned exclamative.

But OP is talking about the now constant use of it as an intensifier "that was super funny" "he is super annoying" "I'm super tired!" that sort of thing

It's the new "very", like "jolly" was the intensifier of the 1950s. Very excited sounds ok, jolly excited sounds old fashioned. Try it! Jolly smart, very smart, super smart.

So, I'm starting to say something very very exciting and super interesting.

Fuck off with the reaching out, the going forwards and the myselfs.

Definitely Kardashians (DD watches ALL the episodes, several times)
They spend much of their life in a super- excited state.

They always sound glum though when they say it.

Don't you mean really, really glum?