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055 A history of emotion

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The Evolution of Disgust

The word for disgust is quite new it used to mean just things that didn't taste nice disgust thing bad not of the mouth bad taste and then it was sort of throughout the 17th century used a bit more to mean i don't like him that person disgusts me. Then it became aesthetics taste expert we now call them aesthetic philosophers but they were tastes people and they wanted a word that meant the opposite of good taste so good taste with beautiful flowers and sunshine and all this. They use disgust to it let's use this metaphorical word to mean bad taste horrid things and it kind of stuck so now we use the word for all the yocks it's yucky it's disgusting.

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