I recently read a newsletter that went into the science behind why we don’t like certain words. One that comes to mind for most people is “moist.” I learned that it isn’t the word, or the way it’s said, that upsets us. Rather, context plays the most important role (for example, no one gets bent out of shape when talking about a moist cake). From reading this newsletter, I began to think about words I am not particularly fond of and have worked on figuring out why.
Classy
Authentic
You know when you first hear a song and kind of dig it, then you hear it incessantly and can no longer stand it? That’s how I feel about the word “authentic.” Every site I visit seems to have a million articles with this buzz word so I avoid ever using it in my own writing. The word in and of itself is just fine, but it’s frequency of appearance is annoying.
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