Tuesday April 9, 2013
Quotes about euphemisms
“World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.” – Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality
“During one of many anti-austerity protests last summer, more than 1,000 people rallied to oppose Philadelphia’s plans to ‘transform schools,’ a pleasant euphemism generally meaning school closures and mass layoffs.” – Allison Kilkenny, The Fight For Philly’s Schools, The Nation
“Women’s fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.” – Andrea Dworkin
“Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.” – Quentin Crisp, Manners From Heaven, 1984
“The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.” – George Carlin
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