Aug
12

Euphemisms and genital mutilation

Eengstro on August 12th, 2007

Sometimes the way a news story is written pisses me off as much as the events being reported:

Egyptian girl dies in circumcision
Sat Aug 11, 7:50 PM ET
CAIRO, Egypt – A 13-year-old Egyptian girl has died during a circumcision operation, two months after the death of another girl prompted health officials to ban the widespread traditional [...]

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Jun
19

Rental Euphemisms

Eengstro on June 19th, 2007

Reading the rental classifieds would make you think that every place offered is much better than the student-infested dump you’re looking to move out of. Alas, it just ain’t so! Like all other advertising, the classifieds (and this includes such things as Craigslist) are crawling with euphemisms: soft words chosen by landlords to ease the [...]

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