"Underwear for Fat People" - love it! Life was so much simpler then...
I'm not a big fan of euphemism either: it can very often be the flip side of contempt. After all, if someone perceives the need for a euphemism it's usually because whatever it is is seen as lesser in some way. "We know that X really is less valuable than Y, but we don't want to hurt X's feelings by saying so, so we'll make up a special word to disguise it." Whereas this passage is saying, don't leap to conclusions, there may be more here than will appear if you look at it only the way you've been used to do.
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Date: 2009-09-14 04:43 pm (UTC)I'm not a big fan of euphemism either: it can very often be the flip side of contempt. After all, if someone perceives the need for a euphemism it's usually because whatever it is is seen as lesser in some way. "We know that X really is less valuable than Y, but we don't want to hurt X's feelings by saying so, so we'll make up a special word to disguise it." Whereas this passage is saying, don't leap to conclusions, there may be more here than will appear if you look at it only the way you've been used to do.