Revelation34 posted...
Who is exactly this "we"?
Me, I decide it, I'm a linguist, specifically specializing in Old and Middle English, so that makes me
triple
authoritative.
ParanoidObsessive posted...
And then there's "awesome", which is still relatively common, which was a popular 80s slang term, and which doesn't even remotely mean what it originally meant.
Indeed. The word was "aw(e)ful" until relatively recently. See also "terribly"