Increasingly popular among young Dutch and American people seems to be the use of ‘super’ as an intensifying adverb, as for example in ‘He was super motivated to secure a spot’, or ‘Gena was super jealous of Janice’s new look’. Now just for the record, I’d like to emphatically stress I’m not the first person to be wanting to take a closer look. In fact, I have more than once probably used the super word myself. Since adults can be quite adroit at pointing out young people’s abuse of the
The Rise of Super Language