"Fantastic" is one of those words like "Incredible" that is often used when people want to say "swell" or "groovy" but has an undesirable root meaning.
"Fantastic" really means "as in fantasy" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fantastic so like witches and black cats and devils and time travel and stuff. "Incredible" means "not credible" as in like a guy who turns green and gets huge when he gets huge may be a hulk but is not credible. Fox News is incredible.
I had a CEO who liked to use the word "incredible" and when his company got bought by a major fashion brand and he said it was "incredible" my first instinct was to check that it wasn't on April 1.
rsynnott•5mo ago
On seeing the headline I actually did wonder if they meant it in that sense, but, no.
> and black cats
I feel obliged to point out that these do exist.
JohnFen•5mo ago
If that's actually true, then it shows that Google's evil runs deeper than I thought before.
PaulHoule•5mo ago
They'll also make noises about buying money from nuclear plants that will take 10-20 years to build. I'm an advocate for 4G nuclear power development and think it is worth researching, for that matter if we can cost-optimize 3G and 3+G plants that's also a good thing. But just saying you want to buy nuclear electricity without a plan seems daft to me, and that's speaking as somebody who's spoke at conferences about nuclear energy, reads a lot, etc.
PaulHoule•5mo ago
"Fantastic" really means "as in fantasy" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fantastic so like witches and black cats and devils and time travel and stuff. "Incredible" means "not credible" as in like a guy who turns green and gets huge when he gets huge may be a hulk but is not credible. Fox News is incredible.
I had a CEO who liked to use the word "incredible" and when his company got bought by a major fashion brand and he said it was "incredible" my first instinct was to check that it wasn't on April 1.
rsynnott•5mo ago
> and black cats
I feel obliged to point out that these do exist.