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Except, you know, the original literal meaning. The one that is means "able to cause the experience of awe".
Things that cause awe may also be awesome/excellent/great/cool but it isn't the same thing.
Shhhhhh; that's a basilisk.
I'll leave it as is, and hope no one tries to maximize literal "awe-causingness". I think the explanation and implication is robust enough to prevent any funny business like that.
F'rinstance.
You nailed it. This post is exactly what is needed to cut away all the bullshit that gets thrown in to morality and ethics.
still, clarifying that you did not "mean" the dictionary definition of the word at the center of your piece would have been better. yes, it's obvious, but why leave easily closed holes open
Did you retract this because they said it was a Basilisk?
Well... if you had replaced all instances of “awesome” in the post with “cool”, someone trying to maximize literally that would manipulate the climate so as to bring about a new ice age. :-)
Or (if it is the planet Earth that is to be cooled) would arrange to have Earth leave the orbit of Sol and then blow it up into tiny pieces.
Maximize total coolness: Stop stellar fusion everywhere!
Where I come from, it connotes "I'm an idiot". Exrpessing such a high degree of approbation about antyhing is seen as sign of mental feebleness.
Are you sure this is universally true, or just true of certain ways of such expression? I used to be fairly sparse in my praise but after practicing it I found that you can praise people both genuinely and in a high-status way. The best description I can come up with is that it involves expressing only gratitude/admiration without tinging it at all with jealousy/the desire to manipulate/insecurity; the problem with this description is that the jealousy/desire to manipulate/insecurity part is often largely subconscious, so the usefulness of this depends on how good one is at introspecting.
I didn't even say ti was universally true.
I meant universally true (across all ways of saying "awesome"), but restricted to where you come from.