Awful and Awesome

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Why do these words mean the opposite when they have the same root?

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[Keynotekeith]

I think Marina made that lipstick look awfully good !

[EPBxTNxKidd]

she is awfully HOT

[danieldmusic1]

@BloohApple me to haha

[danieldmusic1]

urrr hot

[per819]

She is hotter than Chernobyl!

[Civicboy1991]

@EPBxTNxKidd damn you beat me to it by a ful year

[BloohApple]

I was brought here by a delta flight security video.

[GATisdale]

Is 3:56-3:58 improper english, inappropiate, or just an act of dreamt impropreity?

[EndMLMHeadaches]

I was awfully nice of you to post that.

[cricketjam]

I am awishly lonefull for you!

[soloscorpio777]

Perhaps Awful could be used as a positive if there were an emphasized pause between the syllables... Maybe it could catch on as slang, and evolve, or in this case revolve.

[arnold02000]

Finally, a woman with intelligence who isn't afraid to show it. I have a question for you. The phrase "used to" seems out of place in writing. As in, "I used to be handsome before my hair fell out." How did the word "used" change meaning so much from the standard definition? It appears to be a verb in that form as well, but it's meaning is so much different from it's standard verbal or adjective form.