Multiple meanings of the word bad
...roke a window, it was “bad.” The most comical time they used the word “bad” was when I took ketchup and painted all the walls and the furniture in our house. I was truly terrible for that move. What made it even more terrible was I also plastered my mom’s silk curtains with Heinz ketchup. Those were the early and truly terrible “bad” years of my life. The second way I learned to understand and use “bad” was when I was in kindergarten. If one has ever experienced kindergarten, they know that teachers will use “bad” as a way of expressing disapproval. If one does not get an A “it’s bad.” If one says the wrong thing “it’s bad.” If one does not raise his/her hand before talking “it’s bad.” I didn’t think these petty disruptions are “bad.” I think teachers use “bad” as a way of telling students they strongly disapprove. The third and final way of defining “bad” is something my friends and I picked up on in middle school. It is a way of expressing “bad” that does not make a whole lot of sense, but everyone does it. Whether one realizes it or not, they express “bad” in a way that makes little or no sense. That distinct way of saying “bad” is through the approval of how something or someone looks. Saying a particular car looks “bad” is actually a way of saying it looks awesome. I do this all of the time. Almost all objects that I see and like a lot are referred to as “bad.” The other positive way my friends and I use “bad” is through how well a chick looks. We do it all the time at work. If a good looking girl is walking passed us, a co...