Comments by glennhefley

  • looking up 179 characteristics for a goat.. and finding there might actually be that many.

    January 14, 2022

  • 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

  • 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

  • Seems to be a poorly spelled 'gallivanting' from discovered context

    February 5, 2017

  • 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