Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
I think garbagemen are now called sanitation engineers. And, the antonym of euphemism is dysphemism. There's a good book on the subject by Australian linguist Kate Burridge called Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon (co-authored with Keith Allan).


Would that were so, here they are still "garbage men", and since there seem to be no women, it is politically
correct. Political correctness, of course, being a topic for another thread.

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