100 words….squash and why does everyone hate the word moist?
January 31, 2008
Some words, like squash, can just capture the feeling of what they express. You can feel it in your mouth. You can image walking on the sidewalk and stepping on an old peeled banana. Words like this astound me: moist. The feeling of when you put on fresh socks and then step out to the garage and place your foot in a puddle you tried so hard to avoid. As you walk away all you can think is damn, I really wish my sock wasn’t moist. Even as your mind whispers the word you can feel it in every sense of the meaning.
Jen, you make a really interesting point about the word moist. I can think of a couple of others, too. I think you’re on to something here, writing about language and words themselves instead of their literal meaning.
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