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For fuck's sake, who has ever said "skin orgasm", you shameless click-baiting jerks. The word has been "frisson" for centuries, its not even that obscure.
by astazangasta 11y ago
For fuck's sake, who has ever said "skin orgasm", you shameless click-baiting jerks. The word has been "frisson" for centuries, its not even that obscure.
- simplemath 11y agoASMR is the nomenclature in vogue for this now. Frisson still wins.
- Zikes 11y agoASMR enthusiasts will be quick to point out that it is a sensory experience that may induce frisson, but is not strictly defined by it.
- logfromblammo 11y agoAre you only just now noticing the Newspeak in popular culture? There is now a dearth of synonym usage, and an uncanny aversion to vocabulary expansion. The effect is most noticeable by training your eyes and ears to detect usage of the "doubleplusgood" precursor, "amazing". Count the instances of "amazing" where a better, more descriptive adjective could have been used in its stead. I have heard rumors that this narrowing of vocabulary may be intentional, in order to make English-language media more accessible to non-native speakers. I have trouble believing in them without my foil hat. But with it on, the hypothesis sounds so plausible that it makes me want to memorize an entire thesaurus--as though I were one of the book-preservers in Fahrenheit 451--while we still have them.