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	FAST-US-1 (TRENPP2A) American English First Papers
		In this paper the term "euphemism" is defined as "[the use of a] mild or vague or periphrastic expression as a substitute for blunt precision or disagreeable truth" (Fowler in Holder).
		Hundreds of euphemistic expressions have developed to refer to things like sex, drunkenness, basic biological functions etc. These expressions are mainly a source of humor.
		As euphemistic expressions evolve in the course of time and new euphemisms emerge to replace the old ones, they also help to keep the language diversity alive.
	www.uta.fi /FAST/US1/P1/SLA/skspade.html (1379 words)

	AEJMC Archives -- February 1999, week 1 (#14)
		Euphemistic language also often is tied to a company's desire to create positive images for its products, of course, or to accommodate cultural taboos which discourage the use of certain words in public.
		In this view, when euphemistic language is used to deceive, restrict the rational humanity of others, eliminate or reduce the receiver's options, or maintain an unequal power balance by deflecting feedback or critical analysis, its use becomes ethically problematic (Buber, 1958; Bok, 1989, 1983; Weaver, 1971; Johnstone, 1981; Garrett, 1961).
		Describing the disruption of lives euphemistically as a sacrifice for the corporate good, particularly when the firings will in the long run harm the company, may ease the feelings of top executives, but it shows no respect for the workers affected.
	list.msu.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9902a&L=aejmc&F=&S=&P=1935 (4848 words)

	Euphemism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are any number of lengthier periphrases for excretion used to excuse oneself from company, such as to powder one's nose or to see a man about a horse (or dog).
		Groin and crotch refer to a larger region of the body, but are euphemistic when used to refer to the genitals.
		Virtually all other sexual terms are still considered profane and unacceptable for use even in a euphemistic sense.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Euphemism (2613 words)

	euphemistic - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Words originally intended as euphemisms may lose their euphemistic value, acquiring the negative connotations of their referents.
		In some cases, they may be used mockingly and...
		euphemistic - definition of euphemistic by the Free Online Dictionary...
	encarta.msn.com /euphemistic.html (178 words)

	TABU day 28 June 2002 \| University of Groningen
		In this study, topic sensitivity is deemed to be the main factor in directing the communication into vague and oblique ways because, as will become clear, the choice of euphemistic reduplication of Turkish women in sensitive contexts is not random, but purposeful.
		We relate Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness theory with Schutz‘s (1998) taxonomy of self-presentation styles to construct a frame for investigating socio-psychological and linguistic aspects of FTA phenomena.
		We demonstrate that euphemistic use of reduplications is a self-protective strategy addressing minimal self-disclosure concerns in line with Goffman’s notion of face.
	odur.let.rug.nl /events/tabu/2002/abstracts/yetkiner.htm (257 words)

	HF ENG 111 Language and Society: Lecture 4, page 3 (Macintosh version)
		Euphemism is the use of an expression that is perceived as a less direct way of expressing a concept that is regarded as painful or embarrassing, such as death, sex, or bodily excretions.
		Death and dying are, of course, concepts that are often expressed euphemistically in modern society; cf.
		Thus, defecate and expectorate came to be used as euphemistic alternatives to shit and spit, respectively, in the nineteenth century.
	www.hf.ntnu.no /engelsk/staff/johannesson/111SoS/l04-o3m1.htm (873 words)

	Column: Why We Should Pay Attention to Al Gore
		For forty sustained minutes in his New York speech he substituted high dudgeon with calm, surgical reasoning and concluded that the president of the United States is a liar.
		As is customary with career pols, he voiced this conclusion from a euphemistic posture, saying more times than "lockbox" that the president willfully and repeatedly has imposed "false impressions" on the American people -- not to mention the world.
		As drama critic and fellow Tennesseean Joseph Wood Krutch once observed, "Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time." In short, the erstwhile Veep's unadorned message was loud and clear.
	hnn.us /articles/1627.html (601 words)

	HF ENG 111 Language and Society: Lecture 4, page 3
		What happened was rather that die was adopted in the Danelaw as a synonym of the verbs of Old English origin (Orm used both swelltenn and de3enn); once ME swelt and starve developed new meanings ('become faint with heat' and 'die from hunger', respectively), die was adopted in other dialects as well.
		Thus, defecate (originally, 'to remove dregs (from wine), to purify' C16) and expectorate (originally, '(of a drug) to drive out phlegm from the chest or lungs' C17) came to be used as euphemistic alternatives to shit and spit, respectively, in the nineteenth century.
		Borrowing will easily take place from a language or dialect which is regarded as prestigious, perhaps because it is used by a dominant social group (but prestige is a complex notion, which we will come back to in lecture 10).
	www.hf.ntnu.no /engelsk/staff/johannesson/111SoS/L04-O03.htm (958 words)

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	Mooncalf Noises
		I, personally, think that it's harder to succeed with euphemistic smut, because the flowery euphemisms add another layer of obscurity to the real nitty-gritty of the smut in question.
		Euphemistic fic adds a layer of fog between your libido and theirs.
		How thick the fog is depends on how euphemistic you get; but any amount of fog is going to somehow impair your ability to throw straight and true.
	noises.mooncalf.org /archives/00000177.html (1204 words)

	Journal of Sex Research: "Snatch," "Hole," or "Honey-pot"? Semantic Categories and the Problem of Nonspecificity in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Euphemistic genital slang is vague to the extreme, with no clear bodily reference point, which implicitly reinforces the idea that we should not talk, or even think, about genitalia explicitly.
		It is also possible that young girls and women are exposed to euphemistic terms more frequently than are boys, and are hence more aware of them.
		However, regardless of why women produce more, the continued presence of euphemistic FGTs reinforces a situation where women talk about their bodies in "oblique and disconnected language" (Jackson, 1999, p.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2372/is_2_38/ai_79439405/pg_4 (1361 words)

	Prime Point Public Relations - PR and Image Management Advisory- Questionable ethics
		Euphemistic language has become common practice in employee communications at U.S. companies, particularly when corporations announce multiple employee firings.
		Between 1979 and 1996, approximately 43 million jobs were eliminated by American companies, which routinely used euphemisms when notifying the workers who held these jobs and the public (New York Times, 1996, 4).3 As the Times noted, In an effort to somehow cauterize the emotional damage of the
		that euphemisms are used to disrupt rational decisions, restrict free choice by the employee and the public, and solely benefit the company, is the extent to which euphemistic language is unethical.
	www.prpoint.com /questionable_ethics.htm (5021 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Columnist Erin Neff: Prepare to be spun on euphemistic Yucca tour
		Columnist Erin Neff: Prepare to be spun on euphemistic Yucca tour
		Welcome to the Energy Department's English 101 -- a course meant to soften the potential horror of nuclear waste through field trips to Yucca Mountain, euphemistic language and the sanitized science of the federal government.
		In their goal to win favor for the Yucca Mountain "project," Energy Department staffers parse language, spin the "science" and divert attention to make the argument for the dump, er, nuclear waste repository as pleasant as possible.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2002/apr/05/513270877.html (963 words)

	Lead Article - December 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A euphemism is used as an alternative to a dispreferred expression, in order to avoid possible loss of face: either one's own face, or though giving offense, that of the audience, or of some third party.
		In these sorts of activities there is an assumption that language is a kind of monolithic entity with some sort of fixed set of approved meanings and values.
		Yet no term is intrinsically dysphemistic, or for that matter euphemistic; this is something both critics and supporters of political correctness are apt to forget.
	www.shlrc.mq.edu.au /style/dec1995.html (1625 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		Bathroom is first recorded 1780, originally a room with apparatus for bathing, now often euphemistic for lavatory.
		Powder room, euphemistic for "women's lavatory," is attested from 1941.
		Powder puff first recorded 1704; as a symbol of femaleness or effeminacy, in use from at least 1930s.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=lavatory&searchmode=phrase (257 words)

	The Wondering Jew
		Recently it seems that there was one of those politically correct militants who took issue of midgets being mentioned in someones entry, and I don't recall that midgets were referred to in an insulting way.
		No one any more dare refer to a spade as a bloody damn shovel, geez that could be a hanging offense.
		A janitor being called a, "sanitary engineer," still pushing the same broom - - I don't think he is fooled - - but maybe some of the squeaky clean Euphemists are able to sooth their conscience about life in general by the use of, "paint over," language.
	bastion.diaryland.com /185.html (440 words)

	Re: Orthodoxy vs. orthopraxy
		You know perfectly well that enclosing a word in quotation marks often indicates that it is being used in an imprecise euphemistic sense.
		There was absolutely no need for you to enclose the word God within quotation marks unless you were using it in a loose euphemistic sense.
		I could be mistaken but I am quite sure that when the AUC talks about God it means a little bit more than just the "unity nature as seen via the laws of science".
	www.americanunitarian.org /aucforum1/messages/1365.html (7832 words)

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		These and other similarly indefensible acts are all justified with equally euphemistic masks such as "in the interests of national security", "defending our way of life", "the American Way" "the promotion of democracy", and even, "national sovereignty".
		Living in such a euphemistic culture year in, year out, can produce an attitude of expediency towards life itself.
		Fletcher Prouty was there at the birth of this euphemistic era of American politics.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/JFK/USO/intro.txt (4502 words)

	euphemistic - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	www.onelook.com /?w=euphemistic&ls=a (121 words)

	Feature Articles: Is it STILL trouble for Indian Women? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eve teasing is a euphemistic expression that lives in post-colonial India and refers largely to sexual harassment of women in public spaces, thereby constituting women as ‘eves’, temptresses who provoke men into states of sexual titillation.
		This popular perception of sexual harassment posits the phenomena as a joke where women are both a tease and deserve to be teased.
		Lets join hands to fight eve teasing so this euphemistic expression is out of Indian vocabulary as well.
	www.thesouthasian.org /archives/000121.html (939 words)

	Adios Strunk and White - SCRUB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Euphemistic clogging starts in graduate school where students are encouraged to establish priestly positions by surrounding their material with insincere jargon-haze.
		The best way to learn to scrub euphemism is to get behind a euphemistic mask shared by a person who depends on euphemism; then pop it off.
		Below are three groups of euphemistic realities, some more harmful than others: Facial Pack, War Paint, and Metal Mask.
	www.occ.cccd.edu /faculty/ghoffman/Scrub.html (169 words)

	Re: Non-Jain clothing fabrics and food. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the process of making silk, the silkworms are taken while transformed into the chrystallis stage in their cocoons and "stifled" (euphemistic way of saying they are baked at high temperatures).
		As innocent as silk may appear, it is indeed a product that involves himsa to a very high degree.
		Most of the wool sold in the UK and the USA is what is called "pulled wool" (another euphemistic term referring to wool removed at the time of slaughter).
	www.dd-b.net /~raphael/jain-list/msg00764.html (839 words)

	JS Online: Profanity sound-alikes help to sidestep rules
		Substitutes for curse words are also invading radio, offices and homes as popular culture, in general, warms up to the lingo.
		With cable television liberally salting shows with the "F" word and government regulators effectively banning the same word from broadcast airwaves, a new middle ground has opened where euphemistic substitutes for the term flourish.
		In fact, popular culture in general is taking a shine to the cutesy, sound-alike cousins of the expletive, which are popping up on radio and television, in ads and offices, on playgrounds and at home.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/tvradio/apr04/223794.asp?format=print (829 words)

	Townhall.com :: Columns :: Call it as it is by Walter E. Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There's considerable unnecessary confusion and debate on public policy issues that would be more intelligently discussed and resolved if we'd say what is actually meant rather than using euphemistic disguises.
		The Grutter and Gratz vs. Bollinger cases before the U.S. Supreme challenge the University of Michigan's use of racial preferences for undergraduate and law school admissions.
		The university, along with its supporters who've filed amicus curie briefs, gives all manner of euphemistic justification for its racial practices.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/walterwilliams/ww20030416.shtml (717 words)

	Untitled Document
		: : : In this case, the fiddling is euphemistic, but the burning actual.
		: : In this case, the pissing is euphemistic, but the raining actual.
		Refers to the fact that the rain is falling in steady streams and not a series of separated droplets.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/1/messages/2916.html (185 words)

	The pragmatics of connotation
		What is different is different connotations of the remodelled euphemistic versions.
		Similarly with euphemisms and dysphemisms referring to body parts connected with sexual reproduction, micturition, defecation, and the correlative effluvia.
		It plays a part in the loaded weapon of dysphemism and the euphemistic avoidance of dispreferred expressions judged discriminatory, blasphemous, obscene, or merely tasteless.
	webhost.ua.ac.be /tisp/viewpaper.php?id=124&print=1 (400 words)

	Mixed Media Watch - tracking media representations of mixed people » Blog Archive » Essie Mae book is ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Essie Mae book is “a euphemistic spin on racial condescension”
		Now she also has a ghostwriter: William Stadiem, who recently made himself the servile but salacious voice of Frank Sinatra’s African-American butler, George Jacobs, in “Mr.
		Stadiem clearly has a knack for putting a euphemistic spin on racial condescension, and opportunities don’t get much better than in Ms.
	www.mixedmediawatch.com /index.php/archives/2005/01/essie-mae-book-is-a-euphemistic-spin-on-racial-condescension (505 words)

	Waters Gets Down and Dirty - Daily Nexus Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For most of the college students likely to read this review, the awkward - inexorable - hours of elementary school sex education are still relatively fresh in memory.
		Of course, the class itself usually bore a labored, euphemistic title: "Human Relations," "Growth and Development" or "Health." The materials tended to be clunky and vague generic photocopied handouts that were supplemented by aging VHS (or possibly Beta) tapes, which raised more questions than they answered.
		As if in response to this universal ordeal, John Waters created "A Dirty Shame," a film so exuberant and non-euphemistic in its depiction of the seamy underbelly of human sexuality that none of its viewers will be left with hands raised.
	www.ucsbdailynexus.com /print_article.php?a=7851 (984 words)

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