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#euphemism

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Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.


James Patterson


#euphemisms #humor #max #maximum-ride #maxride

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.


Patrick Cockburn


#conventional-thinking #euphemism #language #laziness #savagery

It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".


Jordan Sonnenblick


#euphemism #humor #parents #humor

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.


Dylan Thomas


#love #naughty #poem #sex #shipwreck

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #euphemism #literature #literature-quotes #nature

You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative.


Becca Fitzpatrick


#euphemism #labels #creativity

How is it possible to have a civil war?


George Carlin


#funny #humor #terminology #war #funny

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.


Terry Pratchett


#euphemism #humour #political-correctness #humour

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.


Alan Dershowitz


#collateral #damage #euphemism #innocent #innocent civilians

"Women's fashion" is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.


Andrea Dworkin


#euphemism #fashion #men #women






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