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euphemistically speaking
Some of the best euphemisms are lauded as "doublespeak", dear wwh. My favourite: Remember when the American Embassy in Teheran was beseiged by murderous mobs and President Carter dispatched a fleet of helicopters from the desert to rescue the Americans trapped there. The helicopters crashed into one another on take-off and the mission ended in a self-propelled sandstorm. Afterwards, President Carter described the rescue mission as an "incomplete success".
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Heck, I'm from KY originally and I never hearduvit.
So we have a cooler placename than the Hoosiers. Great!
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Your AngloSaxon "c" word reminded me of place called "Love Canal" that was in news over ten years ago because of massive pollution. I wonder how that name was chosen: innocently, or slyly lasciviously?"Love Canal" is a place close to my heart. I grew up just 10 miles from this place whose toxins killed and maimed so many. It was named in 1896 for William Love who dug the ditch that later became the resting place for barrels, and barrels of toxins that seeped into the ground. http://www.iprimus.ca/~spinc/atomcc/lovecana.htm
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too delicate to bring these up
I thnk that, perhaps, rather than delicate, the words tasteful or considerate might better serve.
of course [Eris] feel[s] no such scruples
Of course.
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From Forthright:
paranym: euphemism; word whose meaning is altered to conceal evasion
Your Happy Epeolatrist!
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At Keiva's request, all I can think of in the way of you-feminisms:
beaver
muff
muffin
the Y
map of Tasmania (my personal fave!)
lower lips
bush
pussy
Wow, I'm stuck already. Why are there so many more names for boys's toys?!
call me immodestgoddess
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A variant closing-stanza of the ode to which I linked above (my favorite part being emphasized):
So we banish the words that Elizabeth used
When she was Queen Virgin and itched on her throne.
The Modern Maid's virtue is easily bruised
Upon meeting the four-letter words on their own.
Let your morals be loose as an alderman's vest
If your language be weaseling, vague and obscure:
Today not the act but the word is the test
Of the vulgar, salacious, obscene and impure.
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I came up with a list of about 10 more, then took to the web. Found this: http://www.sheloveshertoys.com/words/words.htmlThere's a lot more than I thought. Reminds me. There used to be a strip club in Anchorage called "The Great Alaskan Bush Company." I've never been there (I lived in Fairbanks and I was underage at the time), but a friend brought me a T-shirt which I never had the cajones to wear. (My brother did, though, for years.) My favorite word for it is "quim," but I rarely have occasion to use it. Besides which it seems to have fallen out of use (the appellation, not the item). I've heard that Brits say 'fanny,' but I've never heard one use it except parenthetically. There was this Aussie guy I knew who had a strange word for it that I always chuckled at, but I can't remember what it was. (Never met an Aussie in person I didn't like very much. The ones I've known take teasing very well and give at least as good as they get - usually much better.) Ah, well. I was hoping it would come to me, but I guess not. This was about 30 years ago. I was about 10 or 11 at the time and I remember thinking it was pretty funny. OTOH, 10 year olds have a pretty low threshhold for humor. (Well, I did when I was 10.) k
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10 year olds have a pretty low threshhold for humor. (Well, I did when I was 10.)
Two sayings come to mind:
May you stay forever young, FF.
A dirty mind is a perpetual feast.
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One term overlooked by FF's lovely link: movable feast
[my alliterative adjective intentional]
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