"Joy Beeson" <jbeeson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>
> I don't propose to tolerate:
>
> clothing without pockets
You must have interesting underwear & socks.
> anti-walking shoes
>
> Insistence that we "tolerate"
> things which ought to be accepted or celebrated.
>
> insistence that "old" means "bad" and "new" means "good"
> defining "old" as "last week"
>
> The use of "to die for" as an expression of mild lack of distaste.
>
> The use of "accident" as a euphemism for "crash".
It isn't a euphemism, it's a contracted form. Accidental crash, apposed
to an on purpose crash.
> The use of "adult" as a euphemism for "dirty".
What about the use of "dirty" to mean "related to nudity, sexual contact
or sexual intercourse"?
> The use of euphemisms for things that aren't dirty.
The use of euphemisms for sexually related words, tends to sexify the
language.
> The use of "gender" as a euphemism for "sex".
It isn't a euphemism. One of the definitions of "gender" is "the fact or
condition of being a male or a female human being, esp. with regard to
how this affects or determines a person's self-image, social status,
goals, etc." Personally, I tend to use "gender" for words, and "sex" for
people and other animals.
> The use of "the Holocaust" to sanitize, simplify, and trivialize the
> horrors of the Third Reich.
Who does that?
Karl Johanson
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