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Bad and Wrong
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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adj. [Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and wrongly
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executed. This common term is the prototype of, and is used by contrast
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with, three less common terms Bad and Right (a kludge, something ugly but
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functional); Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or other attractive nuisance);
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and (rare praise) Good and Right. These terms entered common use at Durham
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c.1994 and may have been imported from elsewhere; they are also in use at
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Oxford, and the emphatic form Evil and Bad and Wrong (abbreviated EBW) is
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reported from there. There are standard abbreviations: they start with B R,
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a typo for Bad and Wrong. Consequently, B W is actually Bad and Right, G R
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= Good and Wrong , and G W = Good and Right. Compare evil and rude, Good
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Thing, Bad Thing.
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