"Uh huh heh huh, you said 'moist.'"
Posted on 08/28/2009 10:25:13 PM PDT by Wardenclyffe
As guardians of the English language, usually garrulous tongued UK residents are finding themselves at a loss for words.
Many of their favourite phrases have been banned.
Dozens of taxpayer-funded organizations in the UK are drawing black lines through dozens of common words and phrases they’ve decided are offensive.
You won’t find any "gentleman’s agreements" being made in the halls of the National Gallery in London. Such bonds are now "unwritten agreements."
No place is safe from being suspect – even the "master bedroom" is a problem for uber-sensitive officials at Newcastle University.
But on this side of the Atlantic, one curious word seems to be under attack.
Not that’s it’s offensive. But because it makes people — especially women — feel icky.
Entire websites now revolve around a hatred of "moist."
There are a dozen Facebook groups calling for an end of the word, with ‘I HATE the word MOIST!" boasting 822 decidedly dry members.
University of Pennsylvania linguist Mark Liberman has traced the evolving resentment over the adjective. He’s found humans carry around a propensity for "word aversion." Among those that give us the creeps, are “hardscrabble,” “pugilist,” “squall” and “giggle.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnews.canoe.ca ...
Wouldn’t that be LOFR? Or is that wasis?
So... I slipped on the ice and fell on my homeless person? Who knew?
O holy government, guardian of the words and thoughts of the masses.
Obamao ?
"Uh huh heh huh, you said 'moist.'"
Members - I'm sure - who have never had the flour thrown on them.
or in the romance novels
Ah forget it
There was a story a few years ago about a teacher who was fired for teaching this word in her vocabulary lesson. Go figure...
It must be nice to have so few problems that they can waste energy getting outraged about something so trivial.
Or: Terrorist Attack - Act caused by continued Judeo/Christian hegemony over peaceful Muslim population.
Like my grandmother used to say, “If you’re bored I can give you some chores to do.”
That last one was me on Election Day.
And it melted the ice-cream right into itself, that cake did; Yum!
BAD WORD LIST
“Fustrated” (”All’a dis’ fooishnes make me so fustrated!”)
“Sammich” (”Gimme dat ham sammich!”)
“Fuhther” (”I jes cain’t thiank no futher ‘bout ‘dis.”)
Um pa pa Oba mao
The word “niggardly” really pisses some people off, too.
The word “niggardly” really pisses some people off, too.
DOUBL-LY!
;-)
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