amelioration of "shock"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Maybe this was mentioned before. I've been noticing it for several years.

Now in the pop media it very frequently means "pleased and surprised; moved"

Yahoo! News offers a paradigm example:


"Tim McGraw shocked at daughter's singing debut...
The country star says 12-year-old Audrey inherited her mother Faith Hill's
pitch and tone....'I had tears running down my face.'"



JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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