消失的名词英语怎么说 有史以来最该消失的英语单词 (有声)

有史以来最该消失的英语单词 (有声)  

'Moist
' 'Dude' and 'Slacks': The Worst Words Ever?
Is "slacks" the worst word in the English language? The New Yorker thinks so. Hollywood producer Robert Evans might disagree. He poses here with some of his most fashionable slacks in 1957.
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MELISSA BLOCK
HOST: If you could eliminate a single word from the English language - just zap it
nuke it
prevent it from ever being used again - what would it be? That's the question that Ben Greenman of The New Yorker put to readers last week in the Culture Desk blog and
wow
the response was awesome.
And
then
that word that I just use
awesome
was a slated by
I gather
a bunch of readers for elimination.
BEN GREENMAN: Yeah
people hated it. And you should be ashamed that you just used it.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
BLOCK:I'm so sorry.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
BLOCK:I am.
GREENMAN:OK. I'm sure many words that were marked for death will e up again during our conversation
'cause many were very popular words.
BLOCK: And would a lot of them fall into that category of maybe things that teens tend to say a lot of?
GREENMAN:Yeah
it's an interesting question because we did detect some reverse ageism. People didn't like like used as a sort of stopgap. Dude
people didn't like dude.
The contest started basically 'cause we counted all the words in the language and we found that there was one too many.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
BLOCK:I see. So you wanted to figure out which one that was.
GREENMAN:Yeah
exactly. There was one extra one and rather than just arbitrarily decide on our own which one to knock out
we decided we would appeal to our very well-informed and language-obsessed readers. It wasn't ever intended to be a popular vote. We're taking nominations
after which we would go into the smoky backroom and pick a winner.
BLOCK:OK. Well
I think there would be one category which is ugly words; just words that sound nasty. Who were some of those?
GREENMAN:Phlegm. The word that came up the most was moist. People hate the word moist.
BLOCK: What is it with that? I don't understand
why is moist so widely hated?
GREENMAN:I don't know. I said in the round up that without the word it would leave bakers
meteorologists
and amateur pornographers lacking for what to do.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
GREENMAN: But I think it's the texture of the word.
BLOCK:OK
Ben. Well
let's end the suspense here. The winner
wait for it...
(SOUNDBITE OF DRUMROLL)
BLOCK: The winner of the word that should be eliminated from the English-language
Ben Greenman
is...
GREENMAN:Slacks.
(SOUNDBITE OF A DRUMROLL)
BLOCK:Slacks.
GREENMAN:Slacks
and the more that word stayed on the table
the more preposterous it seemed 'cause there's lots of other words for it. It's sort of
in our minds
stuck in time - maybe '78
'79. And the texture of the word also is terrible. People said it felt like rubbing the palm of their hand over polyester to say that word out loud.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
GREENMAN:It's gone
by the way
from the language.
BLOCK:And what does that mean to be gone? What is...
GREENMAN: It's gone. It doesn't exist any longer anywhere. We took care of it.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
BLOCK: That's the power of The New Yorker
right there.
GREENMAN: It's gone.
BLOCK: And what does the winner get who submitted slacks as the word to eliminate?
GREENMAN:We decided in the end that we were going to have someone from our esteemed copy department write the word down on a piece of paper
crumple it up and throw it away. So it's a sort of ceremonial sacrifice of the word.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
GREENMAN: And then
I think probably next week we're going to have people eliminate a number.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
BLOCK: Any bets on which the most reviled number will be?
GREENMAN:I really don't know. Eleven and 17 is not that - I don't know. We'll see.
BLOCK:Well
Ben Greenman with The New Yorker
thanks very much for talking to us.
GREENMAN:Thank you.
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