Amazing = delicious

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 16, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:

> Three times in the past three weeks, I've heard my teenage sons or their peers use "amazing" to mean "very good-tasting". I'm not surprised to hear this word narrowed to mean "amazing in a gustatory manner" in a nonce usage, the same as if someone had described a piece of music or a movie that way. But three taste-related usages in a month, from kids who aren't just going around calling everything they like amazing, makes me wonder if a new(?) shade of meaning becoming lexicalized.
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> Neal

Sounds like a foodie-blooger's term of art.

LH
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> On Apr 16, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET> wrote:
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>> My wife, just now, to our sons, just home from school. Complete w singular agreement.
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>> Neal
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>> On Apr 16, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> what's struck me about it is the case concord.
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>>> That's exactly what struck *me* about that and the purpose of my prior was
>>> to say that. Yet, somehow, I failed to say anything about that, merely
>>> posting the jesting afterthought, instead.
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