Is it normal to find the sound of certain words upsettingly ugly?

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I'm very susceptible(?) to the sounds of words, as distinct from their meanings. Hearing an ugly word can ruin whole stretches of a day, while other sounds send me into ecstasy. To me, hearing a word with ugly sounds in it (like 'keck' or 'cloon', for example) is like smelling a fart or coming across a maggot in an apple. Can a word be intrinsically foul-sounding? Can we get rid of these words and drop them from our language? Is this normal?

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  • Cha'ng
    13 years ago

    It's called synethzism or something along those lines, it's the linking of different senses look it up

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals
    12 years ago

    I hate the word Christian or Jesus.

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  • Its_Called_Love
    12 years ago

    Same with me, for the word "box" and all the words that rhyme with it.

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  • Elevate93
    12 years ago

    yes some words are ugly and should be dropped from our language sometimes i make up words or ill think of a word and ill think it was already existing but turns out it doesnt

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  • ever.so.inocent...
    12 years ago

    yeah dw bout it .....
    all kinds of people feel different things when they see feel or hear stuff , its cool .

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  • somebodie
    13 years ago

    I have a long list of words I can't stand hearing. My friends like to torture me with them...

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  • CrystalMoonlight
    13 years ago

    I don't usually mind words like that but I can see where you're coming from. I hate the soud of the word "Crusty". D:

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  • dnk4life
    13 years ago

    i dont know about english, there r some I find ugly but if u listen to Dutch language. it's so shitty farty ugly that i do want to smash that person who is speaking.

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  • alv1592
    13 years ago

    you are a synesthete. that means you hear a word and you can also see it..something like that. btw what do "keck" and "cloon" mean? i've never heard anybody use those words...

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  • lewlew80
    13 years ago

    Lmao@ dookie, I use that word all the time!

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  • randomjelly
    13 years ago

    Don't know if this fits but the word dookie totally makes me belly laugh. It's foul yet amusing.

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  • icy_blue52
    13 years ago

    It's realty funny you mention this because I was having the same thoughts earlier today and no one to tell them too. It's also like if you say a word over and over it just sound utterly stupid and you wonder how someone could have thought of that word and what made them decide on the meaning.

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  • DannyKanes
    13 years ago

    I don't know if we can get rid of them, but I know what you mean. :-) Sometimes you can look at a word or spell a name and it just looks awful.

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