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Tangent: I think Ayer's observation was correct but he had the implication backwards. The English sentence "Yuck!" contains the assertion "That is bad." and is truth-apt.
I have launched into arguments with people after they expressed distaste, and I think it was at least properly grammatical. A start: "What's yucky about that?"
When I was in Thailand, I saw some local tribesmen eat a popular snack of giant beetles. I said "Yuck!" and couldn't watch them. However, I recognize that there's nothing weirder about eating a bug than about eating a chicken and that they're perfectly healthy and nutritious to people who haven't been raised to fear eating them.