Re: Help needed with expletives

David Friedman
To my ear, all such terms are condescending. The
implication is that we already know that the
characteristic is bad--not merely in the sense of
unfortunate, like being sick, but in something more
like an "implies low status" sense--and we also know
that people who have that characteristic are sensitive
and must be protected by pretending they aren't low
status.

Indeed one can generalize this by saying: Euphemism
just does not work.

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