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Euphemisms

Euphemisms. is a substitution for an expression that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the receiver, using instead an agreeable or less offensive expression, or to make it less troublesome for the speaker . Shake Your Euphemism. George Carlin. Some examples of Euphemisms.

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Euphemisms

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  1. Euphemisms is a substitution for an expression that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the receiver, using instead an agreeable or less offensive expression, or to make it less troublesome for the speaker. Shake Your Euphemism

  2. George Carlin

  3. Some examples of Euphemisms • pre-owned car - used car/second-hand car • restroom (US English) - toilet • to pass on - to die • friendly fire - being fired upon by your own side in battle • enhanced interrogation technique - torture • the big C - cancer

  4. Euphemisms - Death pushing up the daisies to croak food for the worms snuff out the candle swansong to be toast gravestone/headstone the sands of time running out

  5. Arguments • have words with someone

  6. Being poor • financially embarrassed

  7. Being Crazy • An olive short of a pizza

  8. No matter how you say it… • Euphemism commercial

  9. Euphemisms in the Giver With a partner, begin to write down some euphemisms used by Lois Lowry in The Giver. EUPHEMISMS What does Jonas’s community really mean by the following words: 1. Release (page 2): 2. Feelings (page 4) 3. Animals (page 5) 4. Nurturer (page 7)

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