Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
> On 2007-09-07 16:46:19 +0200, "Amethyst Deceiver"
> <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
Also, if you tell someone there's going to be pain, they expect pain and
often flinch before you actually do anything. Tell them it's going to be
uncomfortable and you're more likely to be right.
--
Linz
Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford
My accent may vary
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