This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 1482. Is Bad Always Bad in English?

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In today's episode we give you a new way to look at the word bad. Plus three other

negative words that can mean something positive if you use them in the right way. Listen in today.

Hey Michelle, how you doing today?

Hey Lindsay, I am good. How are you? Oh, I am feeling pretty good today getting ready for Christmas coming up here pretty soon. I can't believe it.

Oh my gosh, that is wild. Yeah, oh my gosh. I can't believe it either. This year has been a strange one, but hopefully we can enjoy the holiday season in any case.

Yeah, exactly. So what are we getting into today? Well, I have a question. Do you use the word

baddest? Oh my gosh, baddest in the sense of like someone who's just awesome, like very cool or like the worst.

Yeah well we're gonna we're gonna yeah exactly.

But do use it.

I don't really use it for either one but I know that people do. I know that people do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm the same. So we actually have a listener question about this word

this word today and I'm excited to get into it and we actually

have kind of talked a little bit about this word about this idea

on IELTS. about this idea on a yelts.

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