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Why Is There So Much Hate for the Word “Moist”? (2015)
- qubex 7y agoI remember that in the TV series “Dead Like Me” the main (dead) character’s mother vehemently abhors the word. It was the first time I had ever encountered aversion to it and I marked it down as deliberate “quirkiness-injection” by the scriptwriters. When I later discovered that the aversion was widespread (much like my inexplicable hatred of parsley) did I realise it was an actual phenomenon. I always put it down to the connotation of female sexual arousal.
- coldtea 7y agoBecause "adults" in some places shaped by puritan religious culture can't stand anything that reminds them of "dirty" bodily functions or sexuality?
- bediger4000 7y agoPersonally, I hate it because of the technical use of "moisture" by mechanical engineers that do thermodynamics of steam. Hank Sauer, summer 1980, University of Missouri - Roll, Thermodynamics class. Sauer was a jerk, of course, all heat engineers are jerks. When water is at a temperature and pressure where it can be both liquid and gas, the "quality" of the steam is the proportion of gas to total water. Sauer used the word "moisture" a lot when describing this.