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Sorry tech execs do not qualify as brilliant. A word reserved for minds that are truly doing step changes for humanity.

• senko 4y ago
  > ["Brilliant" is a] word reserved for minds that are truly doing step changes for humanity. The British would like a word.
  • Symbiote 4y ago
    We can stop saying everything is brilliant once Americans stop overusing "awesome".
    • rvense 4y ago
      The plagues of Egypt were awesome. Nuclear weapons are awesome. Your breakfast was not awesome.
      • Volundr 4y ago
        You haven't tried my cooking.
        • rvense 4y ago
          I can come over? You can cook while I tell you more about words you use wrong.
      • euroderf 4y ago
        I looked up "awesome" in an online dictionary and was pointed to this three-part gem.
  • abudabi123 4y ago
    Alan Turing comes to mind. Don't know if the stories of his private life are embellished with Apocrypha.
• lotsofpulp 4y ago
  One can safely assume you do not often converse with people in or from England.
  • VWWHFSfQ 4y ago
    I think Americans exaggerate the use of the word "awesome" similarly.
    • lotsofpulp 4y ago
      Guilty as charged.