Stunning!!

[Gemini]

This is a trivial thing to be annoyed about in the big scheme of things I know.

Has anyone else noticed the recent trend for massive overuse of this word?
It is a perfectly good word in it's place.

A bit like in the USA where the most mundane things can be 'Awesome' , Stunning seems to be going that way on this side of the pond.
On TV things are often described as stunning. In books heroins are stunning. Friends of ours who have just been on holiday for a month kept posting photos on FB, of The Stunning Bay of Suchand such, The Stunning little Port of Thisandthat. I prefer to decide for myself whether or not I am stunned, thank you very much

It just seems to me that so many things which are pretty or nice, and now described as stunning.

[WeeGranny]

A lady at my Art class says that about other people's work and it really gets on my wick! Last Monday she said my work was 'Fabulous' which I know it wasn't! Good yes, but fabulous ....no!

Amazing is another word which seems to be coming into fashion!

[Oma]

The young people hear say " its Mint " to everything ,
That was Mint , This is Mint , drives me mad

Can you remember a few years ago it was the American word Dissing , meaning being Disrespectful . that really made my blood boil .

[Plantaholic]

Haven't noticed myself that stunning is being overused and never heard "Mint". It is the use of"I'm good" that iritates me.

[Daisy]

Words come and go, don't they!

I hadn't particularly noticed 'stunning' (which probably means I'm guilty as charged of using that word), but I remember when I was a student everything we didn't like was 'repugnant'. I've not idea why, but it's quite a satisfying word to say if you want to be dismissive of something. This had been going on for months then one day a friend came in to college with the profound announcement - did the rest of us know 'repugnant' was a real word. Well, yes we did, but we tried not to laugh too much!