[FRIAM] words for Nick

[Eric Charles]

"Awesome" is one of my favorites. Now used to indicate general goodness.
Not generally used in situations where one say "i was in awe".

"Liberal" and "conservative" are two of my least favorite.  Liberal was
about promoting freedom.  Conservative was about retaining past ways. Note
that those are clearly orthogonal issues in their original usage,  and now
we act like they are opposites,  which is terrible.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 8:38 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave,
>
> Great list.   Here is my favorite to add:
>
> Incredible: now is "good", "very good"; was: "unsubstantiated",
> "suspect".
> Ditto unbelievable.
>
> See also adverbial forms, incredibly and unbelievably which have come to
> mean "very".
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nicholas Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
> Clark University
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
>
>
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>
>     Wit — now: fun, funny, humorous; then: clever, apt humor,
> intelligence, acumen, thinker
>
>     Fizzle — now: to fail, failure; then: to fart quietly
>
>     Buxom — now: large-breasted; then: compliant or obedient
>
>     Fantastic — now: unbelievable, superlative, excellent; then: based on
> fantasy or imagination, of fantasy
>
>     Girl — now: young female; then: young person of any gender
>
>     Backlog — now: pending work; then: largest log (literally!)
>
>     Prestigious — now: honored; then: trickery, illusion, conjuring
>
>     Bully — now: to be cruel, insulting, or threatening; then: a
> sweetheart, a fine chap
>
>     Cute — now: attractive; then: clever, shrewd
>
>     Meat — now: animal flesh for food; then: all foods
>
>     Myriad — now: a great number; then: referred to the number 10,000 in
> ancient Greece
>
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