DonFerrari said: Not sure if Popular can only be used when it is positive (even though Populist is a negative connotion of politician that do things to be popular), but yes that doesn't matter and famous would be a better world (altough for me I always think on famous on the positive side and infamous on the negative). |
Now I'm curious too... I though it meant people or things or arts that became famous/had a huge following etc at a certain point in time.
Mussolini definitely was very popular at a certain period and even today for a few.
Damn english is hard.