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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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- Pubblicato
- 1993
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- Titolo
- Boomsbury Euphemisms
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- John Ayto
- Pubblicato
- 1993
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 352
- ISBN10
- 0747512949
- ISBN13
- 9780747512943
- Serie
- Valutazione
- 3 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.