"without any context/intonation whatsoever" I grew up with that usage, I coped very well with that usage. If I'm talking with my 12 year old mates saying "wow

"without any context/intonation whatsoever" I grew up with that usage, I coped very well with that usage. If I'm talking with my 12 year old mates saying "wow that's well bad" it is obvious what I mean. If I bake a new cake recipe and ask you to try it, and you neutrally reply "that is bad", what am I to infer from that? Not "wow that is well bad", or "that's bad ass", or "mmm that is one bad cake". If Stephen Hawking said "that is bad", what would you infer from that?