Amazing = delicious

[Jonathan Lighter]

Seems like "tastes amazing!" has been a TV commercial cliche for some time.

Unless I'm imagining things.

JL


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Apr 16, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
> > Neal
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> Sounds like a foodie-blooger's term of art.
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> LH
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> > On Apr 16, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET>
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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>
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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
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> >>> to say that. Yet, somehow, I failed to say anything about that, merely
> >>> posting the jesting afterthought, instead.
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