The phrases “This shit is dope!” and “This dope is shit!” have exact opposite meanings.
And “this dope is the shit” means “this shit is dope.”
However, “this shit is the dope” does not mean “this dope is shit.”
And telling someone “you’re shit” and “you ain’t shit” mean the same thing.
But both different from being “the shit”
“shit” vs “the shit” “bollocks” versus “the dog’s bollocks” and so on
This is my kind of showerthought!
“You ever think about all of your shit is stuff, and everyone else’s stuff is shit?”
-George Carlin
Imagines a really messed up episode of “is it cake?”.
Usually, “shit” is worse than “ass” as a swear word. And yet, in “this shit is ass”, the negative sentiment is carried by “ass”, not “shit”.
Now this shit is dope.
It is not very complex, both are generalist reference terms, shit can be a neutral referrer or have negative connotations and dope can be neutral or have positive connotations. So your two phrases decant to this referred to thing is a good thing and this referred to thing is a bad thing.
I’m not sure “This dope is shit” has ANY meaning, as I’m not sure anyone has ever said that. Ever.
Well if you got a shitty batch if heroin, what else are you going to say?
“Fnfnddndn” as the fentanyl hits your system?
Uhh someone doesn’t know about drugs apparently.
Yeah it does?
