| ▲ | codedokode 7 hours ago | |
There should be a name for this style of speech, using "good" to mean "bad". | ||
| ▲ | saimiam 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Irony? Camp? “genius is a camp - so good that it’s bad”. “In the sentence ‘this is the sh1t’, ‘sh1t’ is camp - so bad that it is good”. | ||
| ▲ | xioxox 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Semantic inversion or contronym | ||
| ▲ | akoboldfrying 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Sarcasm | ||
| ▲ | dyauspitr 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
There’s a lot of this in African-American vernacular. I’m not exactly sure what a “bad bitch” means but I believe it means attractive whore, but does it or does it just mean a good woman? Either way that’s two traditionally negative terms that seem to be used positively. | ||