Languages are mysterious things. Words find new meaning. A highly negative word becomes a term of adoration.
We just got ourselves a new word for being cool, outstanding, brilliant.
We found "grym" which used to mean "cruel". That's right, cruel like in cruelty to little creeps.
du är så grym - you're simply outstanding
Not necessarily cruel, though. Or does that matter anymore? A language and how it evolves probably says something about us and our time. Finding out exactly what it says is left as an exercise for the reader.
We just got ourselves a new word for being cool, outstanding, brilliant.
We found "grym" which used to mean "cruel". That's right, cruel like in cruelty to little creeps.
du är så grym - you're simply outstanding
Not necessarily cruel, though. Or does that matter anymore? A language and how it evolves probably says something about us and our time. Finding out exactly what it says is left as an exercise for the reader.
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