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codedokode • today at 5:28 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

There should be a name for this style of speech, using "good" to mean "bad".


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saimiam • today at 5:33 PM

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 • today at 6:20 PM

Semantic inversion or contronym

akoboldfrying • today at 5:33 PM

Sarcasm

dyauspitr • today at 6:30 PM

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.