Re: Ashamed of [T]? (fy: /T/ -> /t_d/?)

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:15:21 -0500, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...>
wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:01:03 -0800, B. Garcia <madyaas@...> wrote:
>
>> I've never heard an English speaker say "Umlauts _DISGUST_ me",
>
> Well, I've heard this (and worse) lots of times already...
>
>> i've heard them say German sounds like a hacking cough.
>
> "Hacking cough"? O_o Now that's something I haven't ever heard.
> That's clearly even far worse than just "disgusting" >_<
>
>> But that's different from disgust.
>
> Indeed, it goes FAR beyond disgust.
>
>> Most people would simply say they just don't like how it sounds.
>
> In my experience, most people will either strongly express their disgust
> in
> some form, or say nothing at all.
"Disgust" is visceral, emotional, instinctive and (most importantly) quite
overpowering. I don't know what word you were trying to use, but you
picked the wrong one. It's obvious that your intuition and that of all
native speakers in my experience about what the word "disgust" means are
different to each other.




Paul