--- 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
So now we know that Barry didn't actually read the
article he cited. No surprise there.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote:
Surely this is an April Fool prank.
Surely you don't understand the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:
It's confirmed...they're phobias.
Actually, it's not confirmed at all. The article makes
a major point about how zero research has been done on
word aversion. One person is quoted in the article as
*speculating* that it's
Surely this is an April Fool prank.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote:
It's confirmed...they're phobias.
Actually, it's not confirmed at all. The article makes
a major point about how
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote:
Surely this is an April Fool prank.
Assuming your comment isn't itself prankish:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4389
Many more along these lines. It's a real phenomenon
of considerable interest to language mavens.
Well, that reads like a hoax, too. Hilarious!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote:
Surely this is an April Fool prank.
Assuming your comment isn't itself prankish:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote:
Well, that reads like a hoax, too. Hilarious!
I don't have any of the aversions mentioned in either
piece. The two words that set my teeth on edge are
breakfasts (just the plural) and slather (because
it's associated with the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote:
Well, that reads like a hoax, too. Hilarious!
I don't have any of the aversions mentioned in either
piece. The two words that set my teeth on edge
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend authfriend@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote:
Well, that reads like a hoax, too. Hilarious!
I don't have any of the aversions mentioned in either
piece. The two words that set my teeth on edge
