• whoareu@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Could you explain it to me? I don’t really know the meaning of “it’s sick” (Is it ill?)

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      8 months ago

      Sick can be used either to refer to something unfortunate (as in ill), or to refer to something really awesome. It’s just casual American slang.

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        8 months ago

        Calling something sick is far more than unfortunate, it’s closer to demented or disgusting

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        8 months ago

        It’s just casual American slang.

        We used to use it in Australia in the 2000s too. If something was very awesome, it was “fully sick”.

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          8 months ago

          He clearly didn’t intend it to mean anything else but the literal meaning

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          No. It only has that meaning if you’re 14 and very edgy. No adult will use it like a teenager would.

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            Sick has had this meaning since like… The 70s or 80s. Its not just edgy teens. In fact I suspect that this has probably fallen out of favor with gen alpha.

            So if anything, I think you probably have that exactly backwards