Saturday, September 11, 2010

What I Will Miss: Awesome

When I am in England, I will miss the word "awesome".
Awesome is supposed to be a very special and rarely used word. To consider something awesome, you have to be so impressed by it that you cannot even express your understanding. The universe is awesome. God's love is awesome. This is how the English understand the word. We Americans butcher the hell out of awesome, and I love it. It is such an overstatement that it makes me giggle every time.

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