Palworlds

Dig again far sufficient into the historical past of any phrase and you will find one thing sinister. Take “cute”. These days it means fairly, lovable or charming, albeit maybe with an undertone of distrust or contempt, as within the phrase “that is a cute statement, Edwin”. However the phrase initially developed from “acute”, which very broadly means sharp or intense. “Acute” was as soon as a Center English phrase for a short-lived fever – it is associated to “ague”, a phrase you have possible come throughout in a medieval fantasy RPG someplace, which refers to matches of sweating and shivering. The phrase “cute”, then, is secretly diseased, and so, maybe, is the expertise of cuteness. There is a psychological phenomenon known as “cute aggression” which refers back to the want to bodily envelop, dominate and even abuse the factor you discover cute – “I simply wish to squeeze you until you pop”.