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George Carlin on euphemisms
genkaku
Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
It may be old, but I saw it for the first time today and thought it might help to brighten your day as well...
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for me trauma and stress sound like pain.
Always the master illumination of what F wits we be.
awesome!
Lots of circumlocutions in there with the euphemisms, too. I remember the California Highway Dept some years ago referred to roads as "transportation corridors."
The circumlocution that I find most objectionable is the one most U.S. airlines use when asking where you're headed to. When they ask me what my "final destination" is I sometimes tell them that only God knows that. I cannot quite figure out what was wrong with just the simple word "destination."
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Yes... sort of like the "final result."
... and an "operation" that has somehow morphed into a medical "procedure."
@Nirvana .... FWIW .....there are so many connecting flights now that you can have 3 destinations before your final destination. Employees (airline) usually need to know where your trying to end up....for a number of reasons. Especially if flying stand by...or trying to re connect after a cancellation. And if your using on the sister commuter lines, it can really cause confusion.
2 weeks ago, my hubby left Ghana....had to go straight to JFK, then Atlanta, then to Memphis.
No straight flights.