Is there a downside to slang and the trend of hyperbole (exaggeration) in our everyday language? HuffPost books and culture writer Claire Fallon rounded up the 12 words that have been so overused they really don’t mean anything anymore: "unique, awesome, amazing, totally, basically, incredible, really, very, honestly, absolutely, unbelievable." Once powerful words like "epic" or "awesome" or "amazing" are now used in the place of "great" or "cool". Does it matter? Yeah, it totally does. See Claire's list of words: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/these-words-are-so-overus_n_5447356

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