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I believe it’s more of American thing to put the opposite meaning into a word.
by wruza 4y ago
I believe it’s more of American thing to put the opposite meaning into a word.
- ncmncm 4y agoUniversal human trait. Look up the history of the word "nice" in England, sometime. But no, it is not just an English-speaking phenomenon, either.
- wruza 4y agoRight, irony and sarcasm are universal (afaik). But I had in mind that americans tend to use e.g. “so bad” in a sense of “so good”, which is not so ubiquitous. (I’m only familiar with English, Russian, Deutsch and Tatar really, so my thought is limited to these four.)
- ncmncm 4y agoOne summer when I was at Bloomberg, there was an announcement that some interns had been assigned to implement an internet sarcasm detector, and that they had been completely successful. No one questioned it.
- ncmncm 4y agoBTW when I told my wife about this, she thought I meant they had been completely successful.