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Don't you think the word acne is a bit....harsh.
ACNE! can't they use a different word than acne.
When you hear acne vulgaris (sp) you think its like a fucking plague that you wear. Its horrific. I hate the word....
When someone says simple... it sounds like pimple... ect....
whatever..im done talking to myself
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The "Word"
Started by HEH, Feb 23 2005 10:38 AM
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 10:38 AM
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 10:57 AM
QUOTE(HEH @ Feb 23 2005, 09:38 AM)
Don't you think the word acne is a bit....harsh.
ACNE! can't they use a different word than acne.
When you hear acne vulgaris (sp) you think its like a fucking plague that you wear. Its horrific. I hate the word....
When someone says simple... it sounds like pimple... ect....
whatever..im done talking to myself
ACNE! can't they use a different word than acne.
When you hear acne vulgaris (sp) you think its like a fucking plague that you wear. Its horrific. I hate the word....
When someone says simple... it sounds like pimple... ect....
whatever..im done talking to myself
Hmm. Interesting point. They could something like "falafel" instead. "Hey everyone, I've got falafel!" "Yeah, falafel's a real killer."
Forgive me. I'm slightly off today.
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 11:24 AM
Yeah, "vulgaris" contains "vulgar". How nice is that?!
It's pretty clear that the people who name diseases and conditions aren't the one's who are suffering them. Like, for people with big noses that want to get a nose job. The doctors perform rhinoplasty. Rhino! Isn't the person already self-conscious enough? Do they really have to inslut them further by comparing them to a rhinocerous?
It's pretty clear that the people who name diseases and conditions aren't the one's who are suffering them. Like, for people with big noses that want to get a nose job. The doctors perform rhinoplasty. Rhino! Isn't the person already self-conscious enough? Do they really have to inslut them further by comparing them to a rhinocerous?
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 12:43 PM
acne reminds me of acme..... now the animaniacs were friggin cool! 
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 02:11 PM
QUOTE(OnlyJoe @ Feb 23 2005, 06:43 PM)
acne reminds me of acme..... now the animaniacs were friggin cool!
*keeley nods.... * that's how I think of it!
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 03:45 PM
Um. I think the impact and embarrassment of the condition directly influences our perception of it's "vulgarity" (to coin a pun).
I've often thought this about swear words, I think the main reason we think "fuck" sounds offensive is from its meaning. I mean, it's hardly onomatopoeic...
If acne were actually called "tract" I think the same uncomfortableness would arise.
I've often thought this about swear words, I think the main reason we think "fuck" sounds offensive is from its meaning. I mean, it's hardly onomatopoeic...
If acne were actually called "tract" I think the same uncomfortableness would arise.
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 05:09 PM
QUOTE(Euler @ Feb 23 2005, 02:45 PM)
Um. I think the impact and embarrassment of the condition directly influences our perception of it's "vulgarity" (to coin a pun).
I've often thought this about swear words, I think the main reason we think "fuck" sounds offensive is from its meaning. I mean, it's hardly onomatopoeic...
If acne were actually called "tract" I think the same uncomfortableness would arise.
I've often thought this about swear words, I think the main reason we think "fuck" sounds offensive is from its meaning. I mean, it's hardly onomatopoeic...
If acne were actually called "tract" I think the same uncomfortableness would arise.
Yeah, I had to recondition my last girlfriend to the word 'fuck'. But, after a while, she really liked it because it was associated with something good.
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 06:57 PM
i think one reason why it sounds bad is because we hear it almost by anyone even in the tv alrdy just like cancer...
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 09:25 PM
acne has a ring to it though....also...blah
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Posted 24 February 2005 - 01:19 PM
It's called acne vulgaris cause in Latin vulgar means "common", so it's common acne. The common people and their practices were repellent to snobby aristocrats and vulgar came to have its present meaning. Have you ever heard of Vulgar Latin? It just means the Latin that the normal people spoke, while High Latin was the language of literature and such. Rhino is a Greek/Latin prefix or stem meaning "nose". Thus rhinovirus (common cold) and rhinoplasty.
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Posted 26 February 2005 - 11:49 AM
Who care's what it's called? It wouldn't matter if we didn't have it! 
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