<p>Passed away (Died)
Well-to-do (Rich)
Well off (Rich)
Put down (Kill an animal)
Disadvantaged (Poor)
Mentally challenged (Retarded)
etc.</p>
<p>If you're going to say something, just say it. Don't beat around the damn bush!</p>
<p>It's always bothered me when someone uses a euphemism. I just can't stand it, and I'm not quite certain why.</p>
<p>Any other common ones I'm missing?</p>
<p>Mentally challenged is not a euphemism…</p>
<p>Because we are humans. And humans like to do things the hard way. We like to complicate things a lot.</p>
<p>under the weather for ill?
Behavior improvement sessions for detention?</p>
<p>For most intents and purposes</p>
<p>Euphemisms = politically correct terminology.</p>
<p>But I don’t like politically correct terminology…</p>
<p>Here’s somemore really annoying ones:
Mobile Community - Trailer Park
Adult Entertainment Professional - Stripper
Bigboned - fat</p>
<p>And it’s especially bad when you use more than one at once like
“the bigboned adult entertainment professional was seen leaving her mobile community”</p>
<p>I agree. Sometimes you DO need to step on a few toes in order to save the whole foot. ;)</p>
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<p>Exactly, why can’t you just say “the fat stripper was seen leaving her trailer”… I mean, a lot less words there.</p>
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<p>I think most people would just say that.</p>
<p>Is African american considerered as a euphemism?</p>
<p>I don’t understand why some people insist on saying "african american "when they can just say black and when they have no problem calling the white people “white”.</p>
<p>^black refers to all black-colored people, not just the American ones.</p>
<p>But yeah, what Whan said; it’s all political correctness. It annoys me.</p>
<p>Sometimes not being a ***** is nice. Yep.</p>
<p>I completely agree. I hate the round-about way people say things to be PC, or portray themselves in a better manner. Just be blunt. It’s more concise and no one probably cared about what you had to say to begin with.</p>
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<p>Sanitation engineer = janitor.</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>Wait… I thought it was garbageman</p>
<p>^ Yeah, what’s up with that? No more sugar-coating; just give us the hard facts! lol</p>
<p>Hmm, what about saying “using the restroom” instead of saying toilet.</p>
<p>I know over in the UK, they simply say toilet.</p>
<p>^ I say “toilet”. lol</p>
<p>I hate when people are hyphenated. People try to call me a Hispanic-American, but no one calls me a European-American or a Romani-American (we really don’t belong to any one continent). I am half and half, but why should one earn me a hyphen or an extra adjective and not the other? Why should someone be African-American, or whatever adjective you want to use in front of it? No, you are an American, no different than I am or the guy with Asian heritage or European heritage or whatever. But I digress. </p>
<p>And poor does NOT necessarily = disadvantaged or vice versa.</p>
<p>And I ditto Chocolate that mentally challenged is not euphemism. Someone who is mentally ■■■■■■■■ IS mentally challenged, but not everyone who is mentally challenged is mentally ■■■■■■■■.</p>