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Re:The bizarre world of indie wrestling by diggan on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:42PM (#16361902)
Agree, just because something is different it's not "bizarre". But "special" doesn't feel better. I've always gone with "odd" for something that is not normal but not out of this world. Feels less negative.
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Re:The bizarre world of indie wrestling by iak8god on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:32PM (#16362446)
How about "eccentric"?
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Re:The bizarre world of indie wrestling by mthamil on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:54PM (#16362672)
"Niche" might be better.
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Re:The bizarre world of indie wrestling by baxtr on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:44PM (#16361926)
Interesting. Wouldn’t you say, that “special” has a (slightly) positive connotation?
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Re:The bizarre world of indie wrestling by michaelbuckbee on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:05PM (#16362145)
In the US "special" is often used as a shortened version of "special needs" and has a slightly negative connotation [1]

I think a more positive term might be "specialized".

1 - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/35777/can-the-wo...

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