And the award goes to...

"Award-winning" is such a meaningless term. 'Award-winning director', 'award-winning restaurant', 'award-winning automaker'--what isn't award-winning these days? I just gave this blog the award for "The Best Blog that I Write", so now it's award-winning! Even if you discount self-given awards like the one above (probably a good idea), I could still tell my brother to give me an award on behalf of his blog that he never updates and then bam, truly award-winning. I mean, some awards aren't even good--this blog could win the award for "Worst Blog Ever" and I'd flaunt the half-truth of my award-winningness as often as I could.

An even if you only count positive awards, you're still in the weeds. I mean, La Burrita serves award-winning Mexican food, but only because 'best' is a subjective term that a lot of people take to mean 'closest to the dorms'. I bet if you always had to specify the award in question, we'd see a lot less of this stuff thrown about.