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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Bad and Wrong</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="BAD.html" title="BAD"/><link rel="next" href="Bad-Thing.html" title="Bad Thing"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Bad and Wrong</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BAD.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Bad-Thing.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Bad-and-Wrong"/><dt xmlns="" id="Bad-and-Wrong"><b>Bad and Wrong</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and
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wrongly executed. This common term is the prototype of, and is used by
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contrast with, three less common terms — Bad and Right (a kludge,
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something ugly but functional); Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or other
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attractive nuisance); and (rare praise) Good and Right. These terms
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entered common use at Durham c.1994 and may have been imported from
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elsewhere; they are also in use at Oxford, and the emphatic form
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“<span class="quote">Evil and Bad and Wrong</span>” (abbreviated EBW) is reported from
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there. There are standard abbreviations: they start with B&R, a typo
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for “<span class="quote">Bad and Wrong</span>”. Consequently, B&W is actually
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“<span class="quote">Bad and Right</span>”, G&R = “<span class="quote">Good and Wrong</span>”, and
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G&W = “<span class="quote">Good and Right</span>”. Compare
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<a href="../E/evil-and-rude.html"><i class="glossterm">evil and rude</i></a>,
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<a href="../G/Good-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Good Thing</i></a>, <a href="Bad-Thing.html"><i class="glossterm">Bad Thing</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="BAD.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Bad-Thing.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">BAD </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Bad Thing</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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