K-rad (was: txt msgs & BrSc)

Steg Belsky scripsit:

> He also used to use the word "K-Rad".
"k-" is an emphatic prefix used among crackers, perhaps derived from
reduplicated "k-kool" /k@'kul/, meaning "very cool".  "Rad" is
probably a clipped form of "radical", but means "good, praiseworthy".
Therefore this means (in an earlier slang) "swell".

ADULT:  There are two words I never want to hear you use: one is
        "swell" and the other is "lousy".

TEEN:   Okay. What are the two words?

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter

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