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The following words are now meaningless do to their ridiculous over- and mis-use:

- devastating
- problematic
- terrified
- unprecedented
- ridiculous

Please stop using them now.

Also, please reply with any that I’ve missed so we can complete the list.
Instead, try these words which are understated and thus more powerful by way of a sort of Ernest Hemingway clarity and simplicity and gentle understated irony:

- sad
- worthy of discussion
- scared
- more than in recent memory
- kinda silly

Many thanks,
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In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, instead of posting on @Nextdoor:

“I was devastated to discover an unprecedented and problematic dog turd on the sidewalk near 9th and Elm.”

Just step around it and keep walking while enjoying the fleeting joy of early summer.
Maintain some perspective and save heavy words for the rare moments where none else will do.

It is a dog doo not a military coup.
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