Use/overuse of the word Amazing

Pop wrote a manuscript for a book about his time in combat flying a B17 basically from 12/24/43 to 6/6/44 during WW2.
I edited the manuscript and got it published. In reading the manuscript I noticed he used the term "in other words" hundreds of times, a total of what I estimated to be 40 pages of the manuscript, I took every one out and made sure there was no reason, for the phrase, by using the best words in the first place. Almost every time the original words were close to perfect and his favorite phrase was completely unnecessary.
I told him what I had done and how it made the book much more interesting. His story was one of survival and loss, being the two of 16, pilots and copilots, to return from 30 missions of combat, brought the real meaning of courage to me in the words he remembered decades after he lived though the hell of combat, watching almost all of his compatriots that died or just fell away from the formation and were never heard of again,
He never spoke those 3 words again.
I tell people these days when they start using "like" excessively in conversation. Your mouth is outrunning your brain. Speak a little slower with greater precision or I will just say like,like,like,like, like every time we talk.
He finally fell out of formation on the 16th of November 2024 (correction). Rest in peace Pop.
 
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adjectives are like women: they offer life's delights, but then they screw it all up.

today's reliance on spizzy adjectives reveals the true dark age we're living in, along with admiration for puns (the sign of a hack), and mis-using words like pristine (untouched by human hands), mayhem (causing the loss of a body part), decimate (a mere 10% loss), etc.

nobody reads. everyone's an orc.

anyway, my offering is the word, "Absolutely." god dang I'd like to ram my size twelve hob-nailed jackboot up the glib but festering corn hole of the next guy who says it.
 
Rant on: "To express something that is truly remarkable, and causes great surprise or wonder..."

I don't know if any members here have posted anything pertaining to the word Amazing that is being used in today's vocabulary in conversation and especially in television and movies. I, for one, have grown weary of hearing it to describe anything that is - wonderous, exciting, marvelous, stunning, incredible, spectacular, remarkable, astounding, awesome, stupendous, wonderful, thrilling, extraordinary...breathing taking even.

Is it just me or has anyone else wondered what the heck has happened to vocabulary in this world? From what I have noticed for many years is that "amazing" is the only word used to convey "something that is truly remarkable or causes great surprise or wonder."
It surely has replaced every other available word that can be used to be a descriptive term.

My wife enjoys the "Hallmark Channel" and it seems that the writers of every movie on that channel cannot find a Thesaurus in a library or bookstore. Of course, I hear the term used in many other settings. It is sad and somewhat disturbing, to me at least, that literacy and proper use of language, especially English, has diminished to the point that one word has to be used repeatedly as a descriptive term to the exclusion of so many others that could otherwise enrich conversation, dialogue and literature.

To me it's just..... just..., just... AMAZING!!!

Rant complete.
There are also many people that start sentences with "So," or people that say "you know" 50+ times in a conversation. Annoying to listen to but at least it does not reflect on my communication
 
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