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Word aversion: Hate moist? Slacks? Crevice? Why do people hate words? - Slate Magazine - 39 views

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shared by Ashley W. on 02 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • “The [words] evoke nausea and disgust rather than, say, annoyance or moral outrage. And the disgust response is triggered because the word evokes a highly specific and somewhat unusual association with imagery or a scenario that people would typically find disgusting—but don’t typically associate with the word.”
    • Ashley W.
      Ashley W. on 10 Apr 13
       
      I agree with the idea that people tend to associate their preferences with the meaning of words. More info is found on my wordpress: http://awong014.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/word-aversion/
Ashley W.

Stop Stealing Dreams (the entire manifesto on the web), cleaned up HTML version - Stop ... - 89 views

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shared by Ashley W. on 30 Oct 12 - No Cached
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      Ashley W. on 06 Nov 12
       
      "Low-wage kids were taking jobs away from hard-working adults." Before, kids would work with a low- wage, and now are receiving education to work for a higher pay. This demonstrates how there are sooo much changes that occur throughout time. Adults used were insensed and intimitated from kids working for a low- wage (child labor) as kids were taking over jobs, but now it is more reliant on education and not age groups.
  • The world has changed, of course. It has changed into a culture fueled by a market that knows how to mass-customize, to find the edges and the weird, and to cater to what the individual demands instead of insisting on conformity.
    • Ashley W.
      Ashley W. on 06 Nov 12
       
      It is interesting seeing how the world changes so quickly in which everything just sums up to a main topic in which it changed for. While reading this, it sounds rather selfish to see the world change to "cater to what the individual demands."
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