I must respectfully disagree. "Cold" is not the linguistic successor to
"cool." When Donkey says, "That's cold" to Shrek, it is not a compliment.
The current correct word to demonstrate approbation (and my teen-age
children confirm this), is "sweet." NB - When spoken, it should be
pronounced "sweeeeet."
Steve Greenberg
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Belanger [mailto:belanger@virginia.edu]
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:51 PM
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Subject: RE: Distributed: a new word
At 02:45 PM 7/16/2004, you wrote:
>No, Terry, the word is no longer "cool". I cite the Donkey [in
>SCHRECK]: "That's cold, man". Gabriel Austin
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>From: exlibris@library.berkeley.edu
>[mailto:exlibris@library.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Terry Belanger
>Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:16 PM
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>Subject: Distributed: a new word
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>Earlier today, I received the following email form message from the
>book
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>and print dealer, W. Graham Arader . The new word (new to me, anyway)
>is
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>"distributed." The old-fashioned term is "broken." Cool. -tb
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