Euphemisms: Preferring Illusions to Reality
Posted on02 Feb 2012
Tags1984, A Few Good Men, cognitive dissonance, compensation, connotations, definitions, euphemisms, food, George Orwell, glass, illusion, Jack Nicholson, labels, Making Murder Respectable, phraseology, reality, sensitivity, The Economist, Tom Cruise, vanilla words, word choice, words
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Words have power, not only in their definitions but also, more importantly, in their connotations. The article, “Making Murder Respectable,” from the... Read More
