Thanks Seepian. It's nice to be called fantastic, but I'm equally happy being called weird. I'm proud to be weird! Annie Proulx is weird too, and so are our beloved Ennis and Jack. There is a word, formidable, which means something like fantastic in French, but in English it's not really a compliment. Also many words which used to be terms of respect are now derogatory, and vice versa. For instance, the word "hag" used to mean wise woman. It now means an old, ugly, useless woman. THere are a lot of words like that.