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Doesn't mad also mean good? Like other words that also now mean good? Like bad, wicked, evil, cool, etc? In fact just about any adjective other than good itself now means good doesn't it?
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Yes mad means good and mad means cool and mad means ice: ants on ice Sorry, we suffer from the mad ice disease by the hundred thousands, maybe millions. Two more days and the thaw will change us all back into dull sensible people. The Kinderdijk video on full screen is really too mad beautiful.
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Doesn't mad also mean good? Like other words that also now mean good? Like bad, wicked, evil, cool, etc? In fact just about any adjective other than good itself now means good doesn't it? Around here, mad is used as an adverb, not an adjective, thus the possibility of "mad good". In fact, that is a phrase I hear regularly. It is not used as an adjective. :0)
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But in this standing expression like "mad cow dísease", is it an adjective then? Or Ludwig ,the mad King?
Could " mad good" be something like a replacement of the old
fashionable expression "far out"?
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You've got it exactly right! The "mad" cow was the one acting strangely, falling, etc., and although I doubt they thought the cows were truly insane, it fit their behavior. And yes, I think that's true. We've been through a few in between (believe it or not, when I was a teenager, the expression was "Mint!"). :0)
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