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I read an article today about the overuse of superlatives in sports. It claims that words are losing their meaning since we use them too much. Here's an excerpt from the article:

"Disconnecting words from their meaning isn't important until it is -- as George Orwell was at great pains to remind us. In the doublespeak language of the military/industrial complex or corporate/entertainment complex lies the seed of a terrible future in which war is peace and freedom is slavery. And "Lost" gets six seasons without answering a single major plot point."

You can find the article here:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/commentary/news/story?id=5037973


Also on The Onion I read a piece going in the opposite direction. It claims that "'wow's' and 'oh-my's' have recently hit all-time lows." Excerpt below:

"Over the past five years, sports announcers have displayed a marked increase in their ability to accept the evidence of their eyes and find the sporting efforts they witness "entirely credible," a study published Wednesday concluded."

You can find the article here:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-announcers-increasingly-able-to-believe-what,17056/