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title: "how to say 'good'"
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A certain Homeless Kodo has said, "we only say something is good when
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it goes our way", or something to that effect. I quote,
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> Sooner or later everyone starts thinking of nothing besides themselves. You say, “That was good!” But what was good? It was only good for you personally, that’s all.
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Source: [https://antaiji.org/en/services/kodo-to-you/](https://antaiji.org/en/services/kodo-to-you/)
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Be that as it may, I take pleasure and interest in the different ways I can say
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something is good, whether it is good for me, or for someone else, or whatever.
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So, I make the following list, based on words currently in my vocabulary:
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0. excellent
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0. nice
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0. super
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0. amazing
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0. awesome
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0. great
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0. perfect
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0. 棒(a Chinese word)
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0. _baik_ (a word in Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu, pronouced like baa-eggk)
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0. _pona_ (a word in the constructed language Toki Pona, which has no native speakers)
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0. pleasant
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0. 赞(a word that seemed to have been used in Taiwan in the modern past
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(about 1.5 decades ago?); maybe it isn't used
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so much nowadays anymore?)
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0. miraculous
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0. fabulous
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0. nice - oops, I mentioned "nice" already.
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0. fun - I seldom use this word, but I've heard others use them within my ear-shot
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0. majestic - usually I use this word to describe God and God's works
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That's it. I've heard a Spanish version of "miraculous" and "fabulous" before, but
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because I seldom use those Spanish words, I omit it from my above list.
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