Non, Non, Non, Non, Non-Heinous
Why does Bill always say this after something bad happens? I thought "heinous" was a negative term, and to put the prefix "non" in front of it would make it a positive term.
shareWell, I always looked at it like, it's an ironic term. They say "gnarly" to mean "cool," even though the word "gnarly" means ugly or misshapen. And people (mostly kids) use the word "sick" to mean "cool." Or like Charlie Murphy saying "Prince was the sh!t," meaning he was the hottest celebrity around. It's taking a negative term and flipping it. At least that's how I always thought of it.
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That's a good point. I thought it was like a double-negative, where it cancels out. You know, "non-non-heinous" would then mean "heinous?"
But ironic usage makes more sense.
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Gnarly was slang for "cool" in the 90s. It's the equivalent to skaters now saying "sick."
Their use of heinous, however, is correct and unironic.
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