...Awesome

The three dots, ellipses...seems to have become a one-size-fits-all punctuation in people's email and in online writing in general. Similarly, the word "awesome" seems to be the default adjective now for expressing approval. I could very smugly illustrate why these are worisome trends by typing out a bunch of fancy sentences, chock-full of semicolons and ten-sylable Latin words that mean almost the same thing as "awesome". They would of course be written with the aid of www.thesaurus.com--or else I would just do a search for Henry James and steal some of his writing. The example sentences would be witty--or unfunny--in their flippant representations of profound subject matter or, conversely, their vibrantly detailed telling of the time I opened a beer with my teeth. And though you would think to agree with the overall message of the blog, its annoying tone would get you angry.