[HPforGrownups] PoU

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 408

Re: Naff

>
>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

Yes, in the context you used it, 'naff' seemed to convey the opposite
meaning to the one you intended. Although it is slang, 'cool' is used in the
UK and, from your description of it, I'd say that room was "the really cool
bedroom" (I want one like it!). Somehow, "the really nice bedroom" doesn't
sound quite so ... cool. 

Neil
            Flying-Ford-Anglia

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