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Bingley's response reminds me of similar response in the 60's when adults complained they couldn't tell the difference between the sexes of hippies and protestors.
If you can't tell the difference, it doesn't matter to you. You're out of the loop.
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If you can't tell the difference, it doesn't matter to you. You're out of the loop. 
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Bad/good reminds me of the TV show Spin City in which some rappers explain to the mayor that "phat" means good. He thinks for a moment than says "Then my ex-wife was wonderful."
The word my English teacher banned was "nice". She described such words as weedy and insisted on woody words that had some strength to them.
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That's not very nice.
I think the very anaemia of "nice" is itself descriptive. One can use "nice" precisely because it has been so thoroughly washed of any strength of meaning.
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One can use "nice" precisely because it has been so thoroughly washed of any strength of meaning.
That's a nice distinction.
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>That's a nice distinction.
I'm thinking there's a barb in there somewhere.
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> there's a barb in there somewhere.
No, he always dresses like that.
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he always dresses like that.
Ye ken.
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Yes but a nice distinction isn't a weedy nice it's a precise nice worth twice the price. And damning with faint nice's is sarcasm which isn't nice but it's not weedy neither.
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