Paul Sterngold wrote:
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> In pop American culture, "gnarly" is unambiguously a positive term, much
> like "cool" or before that, "rad," or before that, "groovy."
Depends on which American culture. Where I worked (IBM, to 1987), a
gnarly problem was a tough, difficult and/or troublesome one. Applied
to a person, it meant difficult to work with, argumentative, etc. And
this was only 20 years ago.
Grampa.
-- Jim Van Nuland, San Jose (California) Astronomical Association <a href="http://www.svpal.org/~jvn/ ">JVN's web site</a>