--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@...> wrote: > > Surely this is an April Fool prank.
Surely you don't understand the nature of human beings and the attachments and aversions they form to certain words. Just mention one of the words they have an aversion to in a sentence, and they tend to go batshit crazy. The context doesn't matter...*nothing* matters except that one of their aversion-words appeared before their eyes or in their ears. Take for example the C-word. There are many here who seem to have a *profound* aversion to that word. And it's a perfectly good word, with a long history, even though its common-usage meaning has shifted somewhat in recent years. But just mention it in the context of this discussion group, and some people overreact as if *by* using it you've insulted them hideously, or have attacked them personally. It all seems kinda silly to me, especially with regard to the C-word. Heck, I'd bet that some here have such an aversion to the word that they might even go a little batshit crazy if I do nothing but quote its definition: Definition of CULT 1 : formal religious veneration : worship 2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents 3 : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents 4 : a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults> 5a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad 5b : the object of such devotion 5c : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
