[Lexicog] When is an "in" word """in"""?

[Mike_Cahill at SIL.ORG]

With the emphasis on "extreme" everything in the USA youth these days, I'm
sort of surprised "cool" hasn't been replaced by "cold" or "frigid..."
(by the way, has anyone else noticed that the phonetics of this has changed
since the hippie days of the early 1970s? Then "cool" was with really
rounded lips, now it's with virtually unrounded lips...)

Sorry, I don't think "warm" has a chance. It's not cool to be warm-hearted,
or have a warm smile. "Cool" implies, I think, an emotional distancing and
probably lack of vulnerability, and personal power.

Mike Cahill

      Fritz Goerling wrote:
      > Do you have other examples and explanations from English
      > (all varieties) and other languages?

      Mike Maxwell replied:

      I'm trying very hard to promote the use of 'warm' to mean 'cool,
      neat,
      nifty'.  But my teen-age daughter tells me I'm not succeeding.  (Of
      course, she doesn't know what 'neat' or 'nifty' mean.)

      FG:
        Are you saying that tongue-in-cheek?
          Wouldn't "hot" stand a better chance than "warm" in replacing
      "cool" in English?
          Works in German for: "ein heisser Schlitten" = a hot sportscar (a
      nifty, cool, neat
          sportscar)







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