What I hope you will help me with.
I want three types of words from you.
- I want your favorite positive words.
- I want words that strike you most negatively
- I want words that grab your attention.
The third list needs an example to say why it's not just list 1 or 2 or a combo. Let's say you are interested in reproductive rights. "Abortion" is not a "positive" word, probably, and it's not a "negative" word, certainly, but it's a word that grabs your attention... it's associated with something important. My quick list after...
Don't waste time making the perfect list... just whatever comes to your mind in the time it takes to bring up a comment form, dump thoughts, and submit.
I'll do it in this spirit...
Some Positive Words: love, compassion, honesty, fact, funny, smart, opportunity, health, nature, open, clever, logic
Some Negative Words: war, hate, evil, worthless, dogma
Some Attention Words: impurity/purity, polution, environment, choice, freedom, speech, language, trend, impossible/possible, logic, and all my neg and pos words.
I have not offered a complete list. Don't follow my bias, but to characterize the lists further I'd say:
Good Words: Words that put you in a positive frame of mind about what you are reading.
Bad Words: Words that put you in a negative frame of mind about what you are reading (when I read about something being "evil" or "war" I immediately get suspicious. I don't much care for calling things evil or declaring "war" on things we want to minimize, eradicate or limit).
Attention Words: probably does include every positive and negative word... but is really a list of words that key you into the fact that perhaps the writer is writing on a favorite subject. The concept of "purity" to me is a dangerous one... it's too cloudy to put in my positive words and have too much going for it to put in my negative words. But it catchs my attention because the issues of purity are interesting to me (basically, purity of anything is impossible according to me), and also perk up my ears much like use of the words war... not as negatively, but I get suspicious.
Please don't let my list bias you... my ideal would be to have a wide range of perspectives represented...