[HPforGrownups] PoU

[summers.65 at osu.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 403


>Naff doesn't mean cool - unless it's some really weird street slang your
>source has picked up (like saying 'bad' when you mean 'good').  I don't get
>out much, though, so perhaps I missed it.
>
>There are two meanings in my dictionary:
>
>- unfashionable or socially awkward
>- worthless or rubbishy
>
>I would (and do) use it all the time, as a combination of those two
>meanings.  For example, I'd say the decor in my parents lounge is 'really
>naff'.
>
>Incidentally, naff is also used to replace the 'f' word [I'm feeling polite
>today], as in "naff off!"
>
>Neil
>            Flying-Ford-Anglia

Ah, thanks Neil.  Perhaps my source didn't understand what I was asking, or
was just wrong or has some personal weird use for the word that isn't
commonplace.

Can you suggest a common British replacement?  The context is "the really
[blank] bedroom" meaning the really cool bedroom.  I suppose I could just
use "cool" but it sounds so American.  Not that those haven't slipped in by
the hundreds anyway.

Lori


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Lori   "More Machine Now than Man"  Summers

          "Asia's crowded, Europe's too old
            Africa's too hot and Canada's too cold,
            South America stole our name
            Let's drop the big one, there'll be no one left to blame us..."
                        --Randy Newman

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