I, too, find the spreading use of 'super' to be irritating cluckfittery of the highest order. Football pundits are also increasingly keen on using 'top' to indicate how highly they rate a player. Although, this is probably convenient for those with a limited vocabulary.
He's a top player = a good player? He's a top top player = very good? He's a top top top player = excellent? He's a top top top top player = has anybody else lost the will to live or is the feed on Sky Sports sticking?
So true, Biglad. Worldy and, in cricket, fifer are words bruited by sports commentators as if they’d been using them all their lives but which were non existent just a few years ago.
Anyone can invent a word. If enough people use it, it becomes super popular and enters the lexicon. It's a top top top word.I shall use it . How exactly would you define it? @Biglad
My blood pressure rises whenever I hear or read of anyone "taking a knee". What's wrong with "kneeling"? Will we soon have to stop sitting, and "take a buttock" instead? And don't get me started on "get-go"......
Curmudgeonly today because I broke my rake yesterday while gathering leaves off the street to make leaf mould. I'll see if I can fix it this afternoon.
My favourite neologism, used to describe inanely foolish actions, is bellendery. It can be said with a French accent to give it a veneer of sophistication and to get it past granny.
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And another thing, notice how often interviewers insert ‘exactly’ into their questions - “Tell me exactly ... “ “Where exactly ...”
He's a top player = a good player?
He's a top top player = very good?
He's a top top top player = excellent?
He's a top top top top player = has anybody else lost the will to live or is the feed on Sky Sports sticking?
I'm hoping that I just made it up
How exactly would you define it? @Biglad
Curmudgeonly today because I broke my rake yesterday while gathering leaves off the street to make leaf mould. I'll see if I can fix it this afternoon.
A lot of sporting parlance gets introduced by abbreviating more understandable phrases.
The bowler has taken 5 wickets at a cost of 50 runs.
He's got 5 for 50.
That's a 5 for.
Fifer!