Her legacy indeed is remarkable (it indeed put a mark), historic (indeed: factual) and tremendous:
tremendous (adj.)
1630s, "awful, dreadful, terrible," from Latin tremendus "fearful, to be dreaded, terrible," literally "to be trembled at," gerundive form of tremere "to tremble" (see tremble (v.)). Hyperbolic or intensive sense of "extraordinarily great or good, immense" is attested from 1812, paralleling semantic changes in terrific, terrible, dreadful, awful, etc. Related: Tremendously.
Your majesty, your schedule this week is appoint a new PM on Tuesday and then death on Thursday. Sound smashing? OK, Cheerio!
-The Queen's Schedule Aide on 9-4-22
When do we think she actually died? There was data leaking out starting in February 2022 that she was already dead. Early Feb was before her big celebration of her anniversary of becoming Queen, i believe.
Don't get too excited. Plenty of well-read people are functionally illiterate. Consider the widespread misuse of "enormous." And the feeble attempt to substitute "issue" for "problem."
It comes from the mediocre-read who cannot be satisfied with the available vocabulary and decide to borrow vocabulary that has only tangential connection. In this case, "tremendous" has a tangential connection through the sense of huge magnitude. People also don't listen to what they are saying. When someone exclaims about a social event, "it was the Bomb!" do they realize they are glorifying a mass murder phenomenon?
So, it is not that words meaning "bad" are being used to mean "good." It is that people are stupidly misusing words.
This is a wonderful red pill for the normies hidden in plain sight!
But I do wonder if you bring this up / think of this everytime Trump says the word "tremendous". Because I know this is the very first time I've seen someone reach for the actual meaning of the word to try and cope / reason with how Trump is using it for "optics". Because he's either using it for optics / redpilling now and every other time he used it, or he isn't doing it now and never did and we're just crazy reaching for straws here.
Her legacy indeed is remarkable (it indeed put a mark), historic (indeed: factual) and tremendous:
Sarcasm is something ....
-The Queen's Schedule Aide on 9-4-22
When do we think she actually died? There was data leaking out starting in February 2022 that she was already dead. Early Feb was before her big celebration of her anniversary of becoming Queen, i believe.
I heard that from people in the UK last year. I wonder what happened.
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Hello other former Latin student. I thought the same thing. Tremendous was a well chosen word. Optics for the normies and a slight nod to us.
Don't get too excited. Plenty of well-read people are functionally illiterate. Consider the widespread misuse of "enormous." And the feeble attempt to substitute "issue" for "problem."
Thanks for the etymology!
It's funny how many words that mean bad (including bad) are used to mean good
It comes from the mediocre-read who cannot be satisfied with the available vocabulary and decide to borrow vocabulary that has only tangential connection. In this case, "tremendous" has a tangential connection through the sense of huge magnitude. People also don't listen to what they are saying. When someone exclaims about a social event, "it was the Bomb!" do they realize they are glorifying a mass murder phenomenon?
So, it is not that words meaning "bad" are being used to mean "good." It is that people are stupidly misusing words.
Both can be true.
The funniest is when they say something is bad or the baddest and they mean good. WTF? Who started that one!
"Loss of her majesty" - LOL. Love my president!
great comment
What's the definition of "peace" and "prosperity"?
Yeah none of those words are clearly positive attributes.
This is a wonderful red pill for the normies hidden in plain sight!
But I do wonder if you bring this up / think of this everytime Trump says the word "tremendous". Because I know this is the very first time I've seen someone reach for the actual meaning of the word to try and cope / reason with how Trump is using it for "optics". Because he's either using it for optics / redpilling now and every other time he used it, or he isn't doing it now and never did and we're just crazy reaching for straws here.