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Does infamous not mean "evil" or "bad reputation"? How come people keep using it as if its a good thing?
by JimmaDaRustla 14y ago
Does infamous not mean "evil" or "bad reputation"? How come people keep using it as if its a good thing?
- potatolicious 14y agoInfamous does indeed refer to the bad kind of fame - this is either a simple brain fart, or possibly the writer just doesn't have a very sound grasp of the language.
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- JimmaDaRustla 14y ago@potatolicous - Maybe they are Canadian? We seem to use that word wrong all the time. Lets just call him LEGENDARY.
- SquareWheel 14y agoCanadian here, I've always heard infamous used in the negative context?
- JimmaDaRustla 14y agoIt was probably just me and the red-neck rural inbred area I'm from.
- SquareWheel 14y agoLower mainland of BC here. Could just be I've been interpreting folks wrong for years.
- motoford 14y agoI guarantee you I'm from a more red-neck area. In fact, we are infamous for our rednecks.
- stonemetal 14y agoIt does, but it is often used ironically. So much so that it has started to be used incorrectly, or un-ironically.