To be honest, being British, I think it’s a great word. It’s eccentric.
Are you trying to do a 1984 on us and try to narrow our vocabulary down?
I’m onto you btko
Haha, well the word was first used in the 1940’s or something like that and it caught on. Personally I don’t like it… what’s wrong with gigantic, huge, enormous, gargantuan… etc. There are so many good words that don’t sound lame :p
I dig the word—though like btko find that there are much better and more linguistically pleasing alternatives—when used in speech, but aesthetically the written word is absolutely vomit-worthy.
It’s like something that’s gigantically enormous. Can you imagine how big something that size would be?!?!?!?!
It’s indescribable OH WAIT NO IT’S NOT WE HAVE GINOURMOUS :D:D:D:D
Grrr…it’s like “guesstimate,” which means I don’t like it! There’s “guess.” There’s “estimate.” Pick one! Or make up an entirely new word. “Ginourmous” and “guesstimate” and their ilk are lazy!
I don’t “impactful” either, but businessmen’s word wankery is an entirely different subject.
@morphail – I’m not saying it’s a rational feeling. Words will come from whatever source they’re going to come from. It’s only when I see those kinds of compound words, I think, “Here’s two words that already mean the same thing being smooshed together. Why?”