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Why do you say in English that something or someone is sick? Doesn't that mean something similar to "awful"?
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Are you talking about the slang definition of "sick"? It's not unusual for teens to take a negative word and change it into a positive one. We still use "sick" to mean "ill," but you'll often hear young people use it to mean "awesome". Here's an interesting discussion about this topic: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/75017/origin-of-current-slang-usage-of-the-word-sick-to-mean-great
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Some people use "sick" to mean very good. This is a SLANG usage of the word "sick," used mostly by young people.
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If you mean "sick" in a positive way, it's slang.
It shall die out soon. You can happily forget it.
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Sam and Susan are correct. Similarly, way back in the 1970's, we used the term "bad" in the same way. You never knew when someone said, "That's bad!" if they meant it was bad or good!
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how come ?
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