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So I love this. This is funny. I like words. I think that's obvious, but they're fun to play with.

And I came across this article that's just terrific. The guy starts with, go shopping online,

just about everything you look at will have a star rating based on,

you know, previous customers, right?

Many of them phony, which makes shopping online a bit difficult.

And he says it's less easy to quantify things in such a way in day-to-day life.

For instance, if your friend was telling you about a product or a restaurant or whatever,

where would their description fall on the star scale, blah, blah, blah.

Well, he said, you're in the dark no longer.

A new U-Gov study reveals exactly how positively and negatively the population perceives various words or descriptions to be.

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