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Old 11-02-2017, 01:08 PM   #139
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972 View Post
It's even worse out in the real world, take the sentence :

This is a ridiculous idea.

Now, this means it's either a very good or very bad idea and there is no way to tell which (short of prolonged exposure to the person speaking)
I've never heard anyone use the word "ridiculous" to mean "good" (unless it's a phrase like "ridiculously cheap"). Is this the kind of thing that the cool kids do? I was never one of those .
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