Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Please, please, people. Let’s put the ‘awe’ back in ‘awesome’ – Jill Shargaa – TED Talk

We are using the word awesome incorrectly
The overuse has replaced words like great and thank you.
Webster’s dictionary: Awesome is fear mingled with admiration or reverence; a feeling produced by something majestic, sublime, etc.
Using it to describe mundane things takes away its power!
No highs or lows if everything is awesome.
10 things that are awesome:
1)      Inventing the wheel
2)      The great pyramids
3)      The grand canyon
4)      Louis Daguerre/Photography
5)      D-DAY
6)      Honeybee
7)      Landing on the moon! Apollo 11
8)      Woodstock (changed the history of rock and roll)
9)      Sharks
10)   The internet

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