Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
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I've never been a fan of euphemism.
Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
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