Outrageous ( 不像话, 法外な, 터무니없는

One of my pet peeves for my generation of people (other than the fact that we love to complain about everything, which is exactly what I'm doing now, the irony of my statement does not allude me) is we learn all these fancy words in school and for the SAT and in college, but daily discourse gets dumbed down to very basic words and "new slang" terms that are nonsensical and aren't actually words. The prime example that Gen Z (or is it Gen Alpha) just came up with in the last few months just to troll the older generations is the phrase "6-7" and its accompanying "weighing of the scales" hand gesture that really makes one wonder if we've reached the end of civilization as we know it, when a whole generation of young people will participate in the dumbing down of civilization just because "it's funny." 6-7 actually isn't the earworm that annoys me the most, it's this blanket use of the term "crazy" in today's conversations of adults that makes me cringe every time I hear it. It used to be "at the end of the day" used in front of every sentence that began to make the phrase meaningless because its intended use as a conclusory statement or contradicting specific prior sentences doesn't make sense when it's used in every sentence, there's nothing to sum up nor to contradict. "Crazy" is for me starting to lose any value whatsoever because of similar factors: anytime anything happens that anyone thinks is notable, they say "crazy." Any news story on the internet, in the paper, no social media, etc., can be considered "crazy." What someone does in traffic like cutting off someone else is "crazy" (I'd argue that people driving badly or recklessly is actually pretty mundane and not out of the realm of expectation so as not be "crazy") Even highly educated colleagues of mine or law school alumni from a Top-20 law school routinely use it to mean anything like a baseball highlight or how much money a movie lost at the box office or the last thing Donald Trump did in the White House. The ubiquity of its use is also cutting into its meaning: "crazy" can mean both good (that dunk in last night's game was crazy) or really bad (the crazy fascist policies), it can be used in normal life or talking abstractly.... it's just a word people use when they can't think of anything else to describe a sitution, aka being lazy. Good news for those overusing "crazy"... That's what a thesaurus is for! Way back in 1852 Peter Mark Roget created Roget's Thesaurus specifically for this purpose distinct from a dictionary that lets people look up words and instead of their definition, get synonyms of the word, and sometimes a large quantity of synonyms, such as the entry for..... yup, the word "crazy" has 30+ entries, everything from absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous, harebrained, senseless, shocking, unthinkable, unreaslistic, unbelievable, monstrous, wackadoo, and wackadoodle. What's more, it has antonyms, so opposite words like "sensible," so the natural conclusion is that the OPPOSITE of those antonyms would also be synonyms one can use. And the great thing is these entries can actaully provide more specific definition of what you're trying to say, like "astonishing" (you couldn't believe something happened") is different to me than "bizarre" which just means strange and away from the norm, something can be astonishing but not bizarre, and bizarre but not astonishing, like Dennis Rodman getting some bizarre tattoos whould not be astonishining, it'd be pretty par for the course. So I encourage my generation of people, from the top down, Donald Trump stop using "CRAZY" in tweets, to the common person posting on social media to being tempted in general conversation just to use it as a blanket term to describe every situation, please for 2026 let's have our resolution be to use more description in our words and not just make "crazy" more meaningless. Maybe if we do that we'll also be able to get rid of the MONSTROUS trend that is "6-7." Alternative purpose: if we insist on using just one word to cover everything, let's give CRAZY a rest and go with something that's more fun for me to say and can give the English language a little more flair, OUTRAGEOUS. Four syllables, there are rises and dips in the pronunciation, the kids will really love using a new part of their mouth to say it. It's not an OUTRAGEOUS idea, it's OUTRAGEOUS not to try it!