kennethpollock
Senior Member
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Yesterday, I received a telephone call from a young lady at my dentist’s office indicating that it needed to change the date of my next appointment. When she proposed May 18 at 2:20 p.m., I agreed. She responded: “Awesome.” I said: “you must be from California.” She said that she was from Connecticut. I then said that I personally reserved the use of the term “awesome” for events like the second coming of Christ, not my acceptance of a proposed date of a dental appointment some 2 ½ months away.
By the way, I also have “issues with” with the phrase “issues with.” The most unusual use I have heard made of the phrase was just last week. I was watching “Fox & Friends,” on Fox Network News, when a newscaster announced that a small plane was circling an airport in California, using up its excess fuel. He said that it was doing so because it was having “issues with” its front landing gear and might have to make a crash landing.
I guess that I am getting old and cranky and have no use for such trendy talk. It runs in the family. My father died a couple of years ago, at age 90. A few years before that, we told him, a life-long left-wing Democrat, that it was not trendy to say that he “hated” Bush, Gingrich, or the Republicans. We said that he should say that he had “issues with” Bush, Gingrich, or the Republicans. He would have nothing of it, however.
Your thoughts about the current usage of the terms “awesome” and “issues with.”
By the way, I also have “issues with” with the phrase “issues with.” The most unusual use I have heard made of the phrase was just last week. I was watching “Fox & Friends,” on Fox Network News, when a newscaster announced that a small plane was circling an airport in California, using up its excess fuel. He said that it was doing so because it was having “issues with” its front landing gear and might have to make a crash landing.
I guess that I am getting old and cranky and have no use for such trendy talk. It runs in the family. My father died a couple of years ago, at age 90. A few years before that, we told him, a life-long left-wing Democrat, that it was not trendy to say that he “hated” Bush, Gingrich, or the Republicans. We said that he should say that he had “issues with” Bush, Gingrich, or the Republicans. He would have nothing of it, however.
Your thoughts about the current usage of the terms “awesome” and “issues with.”