Ditto for me.
In fact, I clicked on the first link, saw the word moist and then got distracted in a conversation about (I swear to god) the pulpiness of our fresh squeezed orange juice and why it wouldn’t work for a particular application that a customer was asking about…then I went on to read the rest of the page and saw the word pulp.
Moist: How else to identify a follower of Chinese philosopher Mo Tse?
The all-revulsion band: Moist Crampon and the Panties
Damn you, twickster! You made me waste too much time on that site and now my ribs hurt from laughing.
I suppose that works, once you know he’s not a larryist or a curleyist.
A very tinny sort of word. Not like prodding. Or caribou. Those are good, woody words.
Turgid.
Just… Eww.
Try teaching Germans to say the word “rural”.
It just doesn’t come out of their mouths.
One of my students gave up and said, “…it sounds like what my German Shepard would growl if I accidentally kicked him with my foot…”
What’s wrong with moist?
I have dry hair and dry skin so I like moist.
I hate panties though. But what else can you call them?
Knickers.
The OP’s linked article is completely insane. There’s nothing wrong with any of those words. I can’t think of any words, in fact, that I find objectionable based the reasons offered in that article.
And in French, “tampon” just means “stamp”, “pad”, or “swab”… you know, the kind of moist pad you would saturate with ink to use with a stamp.
[sub]Sometimes, having a visual imagination is a curse…[/sub]
Not icky, just quaint, like using the abbreviation “viz.” to mean “that is”…
“Tampon” is the affectionate name residents of Tampa, Florida have for themselves. I’m not making this up.
A “Moist” is a follower of Moe, one of the Three Stooges, a fan of moe., or a disciple of Moe The Bartender in The Simpsons.
I agree. The disagreeableness of the words arises solely from the contrived and overreaching explanations, which impute semantics that are merely idiosyncratic to the author.
So yeah, after reading those explanations, they might be objectionable–but only then, really. This is lexical rubbernecking, and nothing more.
This made me shoot orange juice with pulp out my nose and scare the dog.
Condiments - for some reason I can’t say the word without pausing midway. Like, “condom…ents”. Just me.
flaccid.
miasma.
torpor.
palimpsest.
pimp.
Ha! Amateurs. The best entertainment value come from getting Thais to say “rural.”
Unction
This made me think of Steven King’s shit-weasels who must surely unction after the poop-badgers rural.