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7 Post author: Giles 01 May 2011 06:33AM

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Comment author: Gray 02 May 2011 04:34:12PM 0 points [-]

I think you're technically correct, but especially on the internet, the term "awesome" has been used more and more loosely such that it nearly does have the super-general meaning that STL is talking about. To say that X is awesome is usually just a strong, emphatic way of saying that "I like X".