how to say 'good'
A certain Homeless Kodo has said, “we only say something is good when it goes our way”, or something to that effect. I quote,
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.
Source: https://antaiji.org/en/services/kodo-to-you/
Be that as it may, I take pleasure and interest in the different ways I can say something is good, whether it is good for me, or for someone else, or whatever.
So, I make the following list, based on words currently in my vocabulary:
- excellent
- nice
- super
- amazing
- awesome
- great
- perfect
- 棒(a Chinese word)
- baik (a word in Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu, pronouced like baa-eggk)
- pona (a word in the constructed language Toki Pona, which has no native speakers)
- pleasant
- 赞(a word that seemed to have been used in Taiwan in the modern past (about 1.5 decades ago?); maybe it isn’t used so much nowadays anymore?)
- miraculous
- fabulous
- nice - oops, I mentioned “nice” already.
- fun - I seldom use this word, but I’ve heard others use them within my ear-shot
- majestic - usually I use this word to describe God and God’s works
That’s it. I’ve heard a Spanish version of “miraculous” and “fabulous” before, but because I seldom use those Spanish words, I omit it from my above list.