Maybe this is a regional thing but I’ve always called it the US

  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Really? So no one ever anywhere but the US uses the exaggeration ‘best in the world’? Get off it.

    You sorta had me in the first half, and there is definitely lots of criticism for US treating say….online spaces as an extension of the US, but you chose to go with ‘greatest in the world ice cream’ as the example? I mean, sure.

      • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        No, but it certainly seems like hyperbole is the default for Americans. Everything is “awesome, “amazing,” “SO fucking _____,” “the most,” “the worst,” “the best”… I don’t think they understand how strange it sounds to most people, speaking that way about nearly everything.