Baseball-related Euphemisms also abound for the"equipment";
Why do you think people use Euphemisms?
Spare me your Euphemisms.
Euphemisms don't bring people back.
Patients are often vague or use Euphemisms if embarrassed.
Martha, will you show her where we keep the euphemism?"?
Current opinion" is usually a euphemism for"go the other way".
Is‘demanding accountability' just a euphemism for trying to control someone?
American movie censors adopted the term as a euphemism in 1940s.
In some languages, various other sensitive subjects give rise to Euphemisms and dysphemisms.
Equifax, and many other organizations, are no longer trying to create Euphemisms for compliance.
Euphemisms are often a sign that you're uncomfortable
talking about your body and your needs.
(Oh, and by the way,
let's remember that spanking is simply a euphemism for hitting.).
Euphemisms often evolve over time into taboo words themselves, through
a process described by W.V. O.
Euphemisms can also serve to recirculate words that
have passed out of use because of negative connotation.
When a phrase is used as a euphemism, it often becomes a metaphor whose literal meaning is dropped.
You know the ones- they're usually filed under Euphemisms like“stand-ups”,“status”, and“check ins”
and happen on a daily or weekly basis.
The word señorito is an example, although the euphemism treadmill has turned it to a disparagement,
at least in Mexico.
The word"señorito" is an example, although the euphemism treadmill has turned it to a disparagement,
at least in MexicoFact|date=September 2008.
Euphemisms for cancer are used even more so in the Netherlands,
because the Dutch word for cancer can be used as a curse word.
Where the work itself is seen as distasteful, a euphemism may be used, for
example"rodent officer" for a rat-catcher, or"cemetery operative" for a gravedigger.
The practice of using Euphemisms for death is likely to have originated
with the magical belief that to speak the word"death" was to invite death;
Some dysphemisms, especially for death are Euphemisms or dysphemisms for other unpleasant events and thus are unpleasant in their
literal meaning, used to generalize a bad event.
Also, a scene in the film Patch Adams features Patch(Robin Williams) dressed in an angel costume,
reading out various synonyms and Euphemisms for the phrase"to die" to a man dying of cancer.
This, presumably, is why self-professed climate“skeptics”- which is a funny way of saying“climate change deniers,” but
we're all prone to Euphemisms from time to time-
feel the need to attack one teenage girl with such acrimony.
A euphemism may itself devolve into a taboo word, through the linguistic
process known as semantic change(specifically pejoration) described by W. V. O. Quine, and more recently dubbed the"euphemism treadmill" by Harvard professor Steven Pinker.
The option to work“from another location”- euphemism for working from home- has now spread to the United Nations
where it is categorized as“flexible working arrangements”- and described in official circulars either as“staggered working hours”,“compressed work schedule”,“working away from office” or“alternate work place”.