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In the final comic of the web series 百日後に死ぬワニ ("The Crocodile Who Dies After
100 Days"), which you can access [here if you don't mind the
spoiler](https://twitter.com/yuukikikuchi/status/1240946299467259905), the
crocodile receives this final message:

> [![The
> message](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CC5Wb.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CC5Wb.png)

How should I understand「よくね」? How would the meaning differ if it was 「いいね」
instead (the translation I would expect)?
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How should I understand 「よくね」in this comic?
This よくね is not よく + sentence ending particle ね, but よく + ない, with the
dialectal pronunciation ねえ shortened to ね.
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> よくね？ = よくない？ = "Isn't it nice?"

As for this particular word form, it is a relatively recent slang in casual
speech. This ね was developed from ～ない？ which functions as tag question "isn't
it?", thus always carries a mild to acute uptalk intonation, whether or not
written with a question mark.

Its grammatical construction follows the etymology. That is, `[noun/na-adj] +
じゃね？`, `[i-adj] + くね？`, and `[verb]-未然(nai-stem) + ね？` (in which case means
"why don't --?").

The most remarkable feature of this expression which is not predictable from
its origin is the completely flattened phrasal accent.

> いいんじゃね{LHHHHH}？ vs いいんじゃない{HLLLLLL}？  
>  やばくね{LHHH}？ vs やばくない{LHLLL}？  
>  かえらね{LHHH}？ vs かえらない{LHHLL}？  
>  (the effect of question intonation is excluded; all examples have a rise in
> the last syllable)

This effectively yields a straightly upward phonetic realization, very much
close to that of an English yes-no question sentence.
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