I thought that a counterword was a word like 'awful'. Back in the Middle English days awful meant "to fill you with awe." People said of fine works of art and architecture that they were 'awful' and the artists were pleased. Now awful means that the object is horrible. It fills your eyes with unpleasant effects and affects. Awful is a thing to feel disgust about, such as food.
To me, that is a counterword. A word that has turned on itself, and slain its past.
The ancient arts of Courtesans and Seduction were once treated as high philosophy, with divine and academic associations. These related words, definitions, quotes and ... everything are dark-ages material: betrayal, blackmail, coercion, debauchery, deception, dissimulation, incest, intimidation, manipulation, persuasion, rape
Rape? Seriously? Didn't the Hebrew god(s) say something like 'be fruitful and multiply'? It is hardly surprising, looking at this page that violence, murder, hatred and terrorism runs amoke in this world when seduction is viewed as a crime against the state.
valence and arousal influence cognitive activities. Our
study sought to compare how these two factors foster the
spread of activation within the semantic network. In a
lexical decision task, prime words were varied depending
on the valence (pleasant or unpleasant) or on the level of
emotional arousal (high or low). Target words were care-
fully selected to avoid semantic priming effects, as well as to avoid arousing specific emotions (neutral). Three SOA durations (220, 420 and 720 ms) were applied across three independent groups.
Comments by glennhefley
glennhefley commented on the list do-not-say-these-words-in-my-presence
looking up 179 characteristics for a goat.. and finding there might actually be that many.
January 14, 2022
glennhefley commented on the word counterwords
I thought that a counterword was a word like 'awful'. Back in the Middle English days awful meant "to fill you with awe." People said of fine works of art and architecture that they were 'awful' and the artists were pleased. Now awful means that the object is horrible. It fills your eyes with unpleasant effects and affects. Awful is a thing to feel disgust about, such as food.
To me, that is a counterword. A word that has turned on itself, and slain its past.
January 14, 2022
glennhefley commented on the word seduction
The ancient arts of Courtesans and Seduction were once treated as high philosophy, with divine and academic associations. These related words, definitions, quotes and ... everything are dark-ages material: betrayal, blackmail, coercion, debauchery, deception, dissimulation, incest, intimidation, manipulation, persuasion, rape
Rape? Seriously? Didn't the Hebrew god(s) say something like 'be fruitful and multiply'? It is hardly surprising, looking at this page that violence, murder, hatred and terrorism runs amoke in this world when seduction is viewed as a crime against the state.
February 5, 2017
glennhefley commented on the word galivating
Seems to be a poorly spelled 'gallivanting' from discovered context
February 5, 2017
glennhefley commented on the list arousing-words
Emotion and language: valence and arousal affect word recognition.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/xge/143/3/1065/
Influence_of_emotional_valence_and_arousal
Controversy still persists on whether emotional
valence and arousal influence cognitive activities. Our
study sought to compare how these two factors foster the
spread of activation within the semantic network. In a
lexical decision task, prime words were varied depending
on the valence (pleasant or unpleasant) or on the level of
emotional arousal (high or low). Target words were care-
fully selected to avoid semantic priming effects, as well as to avoid arousing specific emotions (neutral). Three SOA durations (220, 420 and 720 ms) were applied across three independent groups.
February 5, 2017