{"id":6104,"date":"2020-08-07T14:27:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=6104"},"modified":"2020-08-20T08:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T06:32:29","slug":"isnt-that-super","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2020\/08\/07\/isnt-that-super\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t that super&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Rant on<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m sick to death of the over-use of the prefix &#8220;super&#8221;, usually to amplify an adjective, in business communications. Here is a shortened list of actual examples that I&#8217;ve noticed in the recent past:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">super appreciated<br>super challenging<br>super exciting<br>super happy<br>super cool<br>super scientific<br>super deep<br>super relevant question<br>super useful<br>super interesting<br>super good<br>super eager<br>super impressed<br>super valuable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Personally, I&#8217;m finding this to be super-annoying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Rant off<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>To Rant. v.n. [randen, Dutch, to rave.] To rave in violent or high sounding language without proportionable dignity of thought.<br>A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)<br>Samuel Johnson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rant on I&#8217;m sick to death of the over-use of the prefix &#8220;super&#8221;, usually to amplify an adjective, in business communications. Here is a shortened list of actual examples that I&#8217;ve noticed in the recent past: super appreciatedsuper challengingsuper excitingsuper happysuper coolsuper scientificsuper deepsuper relevant questionsuper usefulsuper interestingsuper goodsuper eagersuper impressedsuper valuable Personally, I&#8217;m finding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-1As","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6153,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions\/6153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}