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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
do you go on such active campaigns against *all* words that you personally find unattractive ? again, the anti-liseuse people are a lot more dogmatic than the ones who like the word.
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I don't "get on campaigns" about words at all. I'm making a conversational argument on a message board that I read regularly because I have a little time to kill and am attempting to procrastinate on doing real work. Trust me, I don't give the word as much as a single thought when it isn't being brought up here.
And it struck me the exact "mood" that rubs me the wrong way about trying to push the word-- it is like the annoying little kid that nobody likes following you around and asking to be your friend. Sure, you
might become friends if it developed naturally, but consciously trying to force it simply by showing up all the time and hoping people will eventually stop ignoring you comes off as really clingy, needy, and pathetic-- and excessive exposure to "pathetic" quickly pushes one over the line from sympathy to contempt.