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Euphemism is the art of avoiding giving offence. It is possible to minimize the obvious by calling someone cuddly or junoesque when they are actually fat; to disguise the actual truth, extermination becomes the less unpleasant ethnic-cleansing; and large-scale redundancies become restructuring.
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Boomsbury Euphemisms, John Ayto
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1993
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- Titel
- Boomsbury Euphemisms
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- John Ayto
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1993
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0747512949
- ISBN13
- 9780747512943
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Lehrbücher, Sprachbücher & -lexika
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- Euphemism is the art of avoiding giving offence. It is possible to minimize the obvious by calling someone cuddly or junoesque when they are actually fat; to disguise the actual truth, extermination becomes the less unpleasant ethnic-cleansing; and large-scale redundancies become restructuring.