Comic by Paul Shadbolt

#swearing #comics #euphemism

Bad, coarse, dirty, foul, indecent, offensive, vulgar – most "X language" terms for swearing are unflattering.

But there are exceptions. New post for Strong Language: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/07/13/strong-bad-mature-filthy-language/

#swearing #profanity #language #linguistics #euphemism #metaphor #taboo #words

@aral

Interesting #euphemism for describing the problem with Threads' massively privacy-violating #SurveillanceCapitalism: it's blocked in the EU by "regulatory complexity". CNBC is not willing to frighten advertisers by warning readers about privacy violation, per filter #2 of the empirical model of the mainstream media [1]: "the news is 'filler' to get privileged readers to see the advertisements ... the people [reading the site] are the product which is sold".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model#Advertising

Um dem #Marketing #KIhype etwas entgegen zu setzen:

Wie wäre es statt #KI mit "statistischer Erzeugung" #SE?

#AI #stochastic #Statistik #KünstlicheIntelligenz #hype #Werbung #euphemism #Euphemismus #ChatGPT #LLaMa #LLM

Dear #fediverse #perv's and #horndog's, is "London manicure" a #euphemism for anything? #dirty #tooafraidtoask

"My, what a BIG Mini Wheat you have there!" 😳

#Breakfast #Cereal #Euphemism #Humor

Calling a Nazi a "Conservative" is akin to calling a murderer a...not a murderer.

#wordsmatter #nomenclature #euphemism

@gloriousnoise
Heaven forbid that one should nest in my shrubbery!
#euphemism
They look cute though. 🙂

There is a workers euphemism that I really, really fucking hate.
"Collaborators"

Capital gets called "entrepreneurs" and "job creators"
"empresarios", "emprendedores", "generadores de empleos"

employees are not being called "employees", "empleados"
"collaborators" "colaboradores"
kind of an attempt to rhetorically flatten the hierarchies, to disguise them.

It rubs me the wrong way. I fucking *hate it*

#spanish #labor #languge #euphemism

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#seasonals #winter #TheAdventurousCalendar #euphemism #GRPD

RT @FixMediaNow
Legacy media is complicit w/Musk shaping his narrative w/disinfo like “free speech absolutist” distracting from his creating a pro-right wing platform hostile to truth, journalism + democracy. Coverage of Musk using #euphemism like @heatherkelly gives him much needed whitewashing

I have got a little thing in this Festschrift for Pedro Chamizo Dominguez on #endemic as a #euphemism https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/claridades/issue/view/852 - at the very end

With #Kanye now piloting the #GOP #SpaceX ship, I gotta say it's refreshing to have someone who knows how to rap rapping about the #RightWing's real message of #racism, #antisemetism, and #misogyny without all that #dogwhistle and #euphemism noise his paler #nazi wannabes friends felt they had to include. The morons and assholes who make up #TheThurd have coalesced, and #Ye is their leader. Thanks, #Elon.

@EvilBunnyPottymouth Fuck but youse funny gal … may have to unfollow you otherwise I could end up a cunt … is that mmm #Euphemism :blobcatthink: :blobcatfingerguns: :blobcatfluffpats: :fedi: :hearthands: :ablobwave: :mastodon:

“Big face, small razor” #euphemism #NxNW #TCMParty

#meme #euphemism

With #marxism comes #euphemism. Let's listen to George Carlin about that. For old times sake.
https://youtu.be/vuEQixrBKCc

@silmathoron

> To be clear, that does not mean that we should tolerate facism, racism, discrimination or anything else on Fedi.

The people which are harressig because they don’t get a block are the real facists, as well as the admins who block instances by opinion. These people don’t want free speech, they don’t want a free internet. They want to decide for others what’s right and wrong.

“Safe place” is an #euphemism for #censorship, #intolerance and even #racism or in one word: #facism!