Why have so many ‘bad’ words gone good?
When my children’s friends think something is really great, they’ll call it “sick.” Michael Jackson famously sang “Because I’m bad, I’m bad,” and meant not that he was naughty but that he was tough and cool. “It’s wicked tasty” is high praise around can be an adverb meaning “to an extreme or impressive degree” and have no moral implications. Why have so many “bad” words gone good?
