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SSC Administrator |
posted 29 March 2002 14:36
 
Pete expressed dismay over American's overuse of the word "Cool". So in the interests of international understanding and linguistic diversity, I've tried to come up with a list of alternative words to express various aspects of the word "cool" (though I'm not sure whether any of them truly carries the same emotional impact ). Maybe a combination would suffice? Additions and suggestions welcome! cool: Inspiring
Amazing Impressive
Fulfilling Fun Suave Genius Unconventional IP: Logged |
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bfelton Member |
posted 29 March 2002 14:41
Among those of a certain age (younger than me, that is) 'sweet' seems to be doing much of the work of 'cool'. Especially if enunciated a bit drawn out -- 'sweeeet'. Very South Park ;-) cheers, IP: Logged |
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dennis Member |
posted 01 April 2002 08:33
[Descending into the vernacular...] That list is groovey and bad! (And remember, "cool" and "hot" can be synonyms!) IP: Logged |
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photonal Member |
posted 01 April 2002 13:32
I can say with great authority that *the* cool word to use here in Germany is "krass" - my four year old uses it  E.g. Der Klang ist total krass!!! IP: Logged |
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pete Member |
posted 01 April 2002 15:01
I can remember in my youth a song from west side story that used the words "stay cool boy" and I took this as to mean "retain your composuer". I thought I had it cracked, then over 30 years layer, when the internet was in it's infancy, I notioced the netscape home page had two links "what's new" and "whats cool". There was no explaination as to what they ment by the word cool, as if it was an established word and that no one could posiably not know what they mean. Unlike the word "groovy" which had it's day, it seemed that "cool" was here to stay but I needed to know exactly what it ment. So I thank SSC for the cool explaination and my understanding is so much cooler than it was before. Now that I've learned that realy hot can be realy cool , that "bad" means "good" and that wicked is something realy nice, I need to know if "krass" has evolved into meaning something desirable. Does "cool" still have any millage in Germany or has krass killed it off. I've just this second here someone on the TV (my other half is watching Dawsons Creak), saying" Do you think it would be cool if I reacted that way?". I think he ment "reasonable" or "exeptable" in this contex. Maybe we could replace every word in the dictionary with word cool, and we could all comunicate with a vocabulary of just one word, and yet still know what each other is talking about. It would be great as anyone could learn english in just one day. Wouldn't that be cool cool cool. IP: Logged |
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Fake Person Member |
posted 01 April 2002 17:06
"Maybe we could replace every word in the dictionary with word cool, and we could all comunicate with a vocabulary of just one word, and yet still know what each other is talking about." Marcus once performed an entire scene from a movie using only the word "dude" with different pitch and timing modulations. (Note, he is a professional southern Californian. Not recommended for residents of other countries, states, or regions of California) IP: Logged |
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Larry Simon Member |
posted 02 April 2002 08:07
Picking up on Dennis' thread for a moment, I've always been interested in words which can be opposites of themselves. My favorite is "temper". What would it mean to you if I said "I've never seen any evidence that Bill has a temper"? The common interpretation is the opposite of the dictionary definition. IP: Logged |
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photonal Member |
posted 02 April 2002 10:39
cool is still in use in Germany but it's written as 'kewl' which is of course more cool than just cool OK IP: Logged |
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dennis Member |
posted 02 April 2002 12:22
I am also fascinated by words which are their own opposite. Sort of a yin-yang thing, I suppose. Interestingly, programmers consider "read" and "write" to be opposites but I've seen them listed as synonyms in some dictionaries and thesaruses (thesari ?). Amoung people, the one skill also accompanies the other and so implies "literate." Computers, I suppose, are only "half literate" then. Also, I've recently become interested in backward speech and found, to my great delight, that backwards "we" is "you". And vice versa, of course. IP: Logged |
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pete Member |
posted 03 April 2002 03:42
What about the word "quite"? Does it mean a little or a lot? And "platonic" is one of those words that realy mean the opposite of how it is normaly used. ain't that quite kewl. IP: Logged |
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Larry Simon Member |
posted 03 April 2002 09:04
I've heard the Japanese use the word "chotto" which literally means "a little" as in "a little difficult" to mean "effectively impossible". I guess that they all fall into two categories: ironic references like this one, or common misinterpretations like taking "inflammable" to mean "non-flammable". IP: Logged |
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Fake Person Member |
posted 17 April 2002 17:29
"so hot its cool" [This message has been edited by Fake Person (edited 17 April 2002).] IP: Logged |
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earwax Member |
posted 02 May 2002 13:10
"tall" a derrivitave of "cool" from South St. Louis, MO IP: Logged |
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armand Member |
posted 06 September 2003 13:54
Kyma X... as cool as it gets. IP: Logged |
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KX Member |
posted 18 September 2003 11:30
"c't'écoeurant" (litteraly: "it's disgusting")is often used in Québec; it's cooler than cool! IP: Logged |
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