After taking a survey on words people like and dislike, we came to the conclusion that the words people dislike the most are words that we tend to take out of context. such as literally, like, trust, sweat, moist and mint. These are words that we tent take out of context and use in the wrong manner for example instead of saying "that food was nice" one might say "that food was mint".
on the other hand words that people tented to like the most were adjectives such as, amazing, lush, inconvenient and naïve. These are words that mainly words that are positive and that may lift our spirits.
in conclusion to that, it is clear that although we frequently use out of context words in our daily vocabulary, they are still widely disliked. Also positive adjectives are liked a lot more.
Good observation of possible groupings. Try and be more tentative about conclusions, rather than saying what was generally disliked and saying why (you can't say for certain), explore the group carefully, looking at how those words have come to be used in ways which some people reject as improper uses and how that reflects attitudes to language change that have always been around (read up on inkhorn terms).
ReplyDeleteI liked your description of why the adjectives might be appealing. Can you quantify how many adjectives were liked vs disliked and look at the group more closely?