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Some more details on the Marist poll: A) They only had five choices. They didn't ask people what their most despised word was; they offered five choices and people were to pick from the list. 2) There was no "None of the above." They did have "Not sure." Þ) They did have, in the breakdown of the subsets, Registered Voters. I'm certainly glad to see that. Maybe this will come up in a national referendum sometime soon. For those interested the complete results are here.
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They only had five choices. They didn't ask people what their most despised word was; they offered five choices and people were to pick from the list. Ah, so that's why they didn't report Americans as being "totally annoyed" by totally.
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They didn't have moist on the list. And, whatever you might say you won't convince me that it is the word itself that they don't like. It's the attitude behind it. If these young punk kids these days said, "Moist" instead of "Whatever" it would have scored at least 67%.
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They didn't have moist on the list. I have tried to read up on this but still do not understand it. In the English of my country it is most often used in a positive sense of cakes and other baked confectioneries. The extreme aversion to the word I find bewildering. Perhaps I am better off this way.
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You're not alone Lat. The disdain towards it is not so much an incorrect usage of the word, more a dislike of the word or an aversion to it. Much like spiders or Asps conjure up creepy crawlie feelings 'moist' for some people is yucky. It is still a word without mostly negative (seckshewal)connotations down here but the youth of today have a penchant for changing the ordinary into the sad.
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Lat = latishya?
and my understanding of the word moist is that it has vaginal references. why that's a bad thing, I don't know, but.
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annoying: LOL
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