Well, The USA is a young country finding 'euphemisms' almost daily.
Two years ago, the "weather-man" in TV News was discovered as the
meteorologist; what is, of course, correct.
Most Americans still keep a foot in the farm.
Please do not contradict them.
Salud y curvas, Paco.
"Amethyst Deceiver" <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> La Paranoia wrote:
> > In his essay, "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell
> > showed the essential difference between Latinate and Germanic words.
> > First, he vividly described three terrible events in predominantly
> > Germanic language. Then he gave Latinate summaries of those events.
> >
> > The Germanic words make the reader see cruelty and suffering; the
> > Latinate words remove human beings from the picture. Orwell proved a
> > true prophet about Latinate euphemisms, which are still used today to
> > transform an ugly reality into a bloodless abstraction, a "killer"
> > into a "terminator."
> >
> > 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." Like
> > Orwell's deceivers, dentists use long, Latinate words as a kind of
> > Novocain to detach their patients from what is happening. "Discomfort"
> > does hurt less than "pain" because using that word distances the
> > sufferer from the reality and one can use that distance to become a
> > co- creator of reality, not merely its victim.
>
> What country are you talking about? In the UK, dentists talk about
> injections. So do doctors. Have done for longer than I can remember.
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