After a discussion with a French native speaker, I am asking here:
Can the sentence "My day was correct" be used synonymously with "My day was decent" when answering to "How was your day?".
For context: The disagreement stems from the fact that the French "correct" can be translated both to the English "correct" and "decent", depending on the meaning.
Best Answer
'Decent' meaning 'conforming with generally accepted standards of respectable or moral behaviour' is what the French 'correct' means. A decent person in this sense does not, for example, walk around naked, or urinate, in public.
'Decent' meaning 'acceptable, good, pleasant', etc is not equivalent to the French 'correct', so it would not be idiomatic or normal English to say 'I had a correct day' when you mean e.g. you had a pleasant lunch, the sun shone, you sold lots of shoes in your shop, etc. You had a decent day. Also 'decent' used in this way is slightly informal.