Re: How to sound like a scholar in English by learning Spanish

On 2007-09-07 16:46:19 +0200, "Amethyst Deceiver" 
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> said:

> La Paranoia wrote:

[ ... ]

>> Latinate words can be misused for deception, but some ugly realities
>> are best left covered over. The dentistís office is an excellent place
>> to find examples of Latinate euphemisms. "Injections" have replaced
>> "shots," and patients feel "discomfort" instead of "pain."...

> What country are you talking about? In the UK, dentists talk about
> injections. So do doctors. Have done for longer than I can remember.

and if it's true that "discomfort" has replaced "pain" in the dentist's 
vocabulary then it's because discomfort has, to a large extent, 
replaced pain in dentist's chair. I doubt whether any pain we may feel 
nowadays in the dentist's chair bears much relation to the pain our 
grandparents felt.
-- 
athel