AWESOME

[tricky]

Can I just highlight the overuse of this term. The image would have to be close to Godliness in quality in order to be 'awesome'. How can an image be awesome? Is there nothing better than the image? If an image were truly awesome, wouldn't we start praying to it, or have a heart attack, a stroke or something worse?

Rant over.

[percydaman]

Can I just highlight the overuse of this term. The image would have to be close to Godliness in quality in order to be 'awesome'. How can an image be awesome? Is there nothing better than the image? If an image were truly awesome, wouldn't we start praying to it, or have a heart attack, a stroke or something worse?

great place to throw your rant.... Now how about an image...

[s0real]

here's a list of other words that could be used instead...

Main Entry: awesome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amazing
Synonyms: alarming, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awful, beautiful, breathtaking, daunting, dreadful, exalted, far out, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightening, grand, hairy, horrible, horrifying, imposing, impressive, intimidating, magnificent, majestic, mind-blowing, moving, nervous, overwhelming, shocking, striking, stunning, stupefying, terrible, terrifying, wonderful, wondrous, zero cool

[percydaman]

I like "stupendous"

[tricky]

I quite like 'hairy'

[s0real]

my favourite has to be 'zero cool'

[tricky]

Will this do percy?

[s0real]

aye lad, that's grand!

[timmatron]

No way, I think it's entirely appropriate! That is, if the image is truly awe-inspiring. We all know there are the renderings we look at and think 'yeah thats really good' and then there are the "awesome" ones we see where our jaws drop to the floor.

awe·some Pronunciation Key (ôsm)
adj.

1. Inspiring awe: an awesome thunderstorm.
2. Expressing awe: stood in awesome silence before the ancient ruins.
3. Slang. Remarkable; outstanding: “a totally awesome arcade game” (Los Angeles Times).

[Da_elf]

why is this conversation alowed to continue in here?

[tricky]

'awesome' is a fair-enough choice of word in *some* situations, but c'mon, it pops up at least four million times a day.

Michaelangelo was perhaps awesome. We (pushing it a bit here) are not.

[tricky]

why is this conversation alowed to continue in here?

Mild entertainment only.

[cpnichols]

While I usually like the discussion of semantics, I think that it would be hopeless to nitpick the the use of the word Awesome, which in this godless world has come to means "really cool," to a forum where native English speakers probably consist of less than a third of the total members.

On the other hand, to continue with your thought, I find that people over praise each others work in order to be nice. If the work is so so, they usually say: "That is really great." If it is bad, they will say: "I like it." If it is good they will say it is "Awesome." I came from Architecture school where people did not praise your work... you had to suffer through hard criticism like everyone else. How else are you to grow?

Look through these thread and tell me who you think is the Architect in the group of judges.... actually he is an ex-architect.

http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=82

[cpnichols]

why is this conversation alowed to continue in here?

Well I think it is someone related to the fact that people look at work here. And the word Awesome is mostly seen here.

[asango]

bitchin'.

tubular.

rad.

righteous.

rockstar.