Thirty minutes later, I got it.
"Amazing" has become an empty word, a generalized exclamation that stands in for any experience, whether exciting or not.
It, along with a dictionary of other words, is a ghost town sound that used to mean something.
I was "amazed".
I mean in the antique way.
Aha! I thought. He wasn't using the word "amazing", he was using the deleted word, not the word at all but the word as sound "amazing", the "amazing" that didn't mean anything but was plumping up an empty string of what used to be words that are now just sounds retaining no meaning or definition!
I had to keep working this out in my head.
The sounds themselves used, yet replacing the words; sounds indicating generic tone, promoting unity with other people who repeat these sounds and use these sounds to set the mood and tone for their lives.
The sounds which once were words communicate tonality solely
as reflection of their once-inhabited relevance; i.e. "awesome" becomes an
utterance of "okay".
Words are stripped of specific meaning, now used as quick punctuation setting generic mood and tone.
I'm almost there.
He was using "amazing" as an empty monotone exclamation for its tone indication, not having anything to do with the meaning and definition of the old word, "amazing".
Bingo!
He wasn't using "amazing" as a word.
Ergo, his blank, insistent repetition of the word "amazing", as if the word meant nothing at all, because for him, it did not!
We were speaking two different languages.
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