Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
435 followers · 941 posts · Server mstdn.social

The term ( or or ) “sex work” / “sex worker” whitewashes economic constraints, family ruptures and sordid circumstances. A discussion about for prostitution and human trafficking. nytimes.com/2023/08/17/opinion

#rhetoric #linguistics #euphemisms #language #phrase

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Strong Language · @stronglang
536 followers · 48 posts · Server lingo.lol

The Delicacy of Captain Grose: Jonathon Green on the excised notes of a slang lexicographer

stronglang.wordpress.com/2014/

#slang #lexicography #euphemisms #francisgrose

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! Quite Interesting · @notqikipedia
128 followers · 718 posts · Server toot.io

17th century slang expressions for sex included ‘play at rumpscuttle and clapperdepouch’, ‘play at pork and fish’, ‘feed the ugly pony a fat carrot’, ‘enjoy a game of low archery’, and ‘introduce Lady Wyedon to the charcuterie board’.

#english #language #slang #euphemisms #history #17thcentury #sex #qi #notqi

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! Quite Interesting · @notqikipedia
107 followers · 680 posts · Server toot.io

LATCHKEY INCONTINENCE is the sudden need to urinate as soon as you get home.

LATCHKEY EJACULATION is the hurried orgasm achieved upon hearing your partner’s key in the door sooner than anticipated.

#phrases #words #slang #euphemisms #latchkey #doors #locks #urgent #urgency

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Sir Hendrick ⚔️ · @SirHendrick
438 followers · 7376 posts · Server noagendasocial.com

@memes_1336
More like Fat Farma.

#euphemisms

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! Quite Interesting · @notqikipedia
51 followers · 509 posts · Server toot.io

Word of the Day: SWING-SWANG (19th century) — a pendulous appendage; a baby’s arm; a flesh baguette; a long John Thomas; the baker’s emergency rolling-pin; the right honourable member for Crotch & Knee; a great big cock.

#wordoftheday #dictionary #slang #euphemisms #meatpendulum

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Stan Carey · @stancarey
1028 followers · 620 posts · Server mastodon.ie

" 'Doodly-squat' might seem like a mild topic for Strong Language, but there's a lot going on under the surface of that frivolous-sounding word."

@bgzimmer on the origins of a scatological euphemism: stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/

#language #slang #lyrics #euphemisms #linguistics #aave #billyemerson #BoDiddley

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Mignon Fogarty · @grammargirl
7537 followers · 2262 posts · Server zirk.us

In many languages, the word for "bear" is descriptive because people were superstitious about saying the actual name. Translations:

Welsh: honey-pig

Irish: the good calf

Lithuanian: the licker

Russian: one who leads to honey

Germanic: the brown one

cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedi

#etymology #linguistics #bears #euphemisms #superstition

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Christopher-J 🇨🇦 he/him/his · @ChrJCarlson
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DogButlerPoet · @DogButlerPoet
91 followers · 92 posts · Server mstdn.social

rapid unscheduled
disassembly- her cat thought
as the tulips fell

(sorry)




#bloweduprealgood #Cats #euphemisms #Haiku

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Daniel MacPhee 🥼🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦 · @dmacphee
448 followers · 3241 posts · Server mas.to
Leftist Lawyer · @LeftistLawyer
858 followers · 205 posts · Server kolektiva.social

The terms & are really just for . You’ve literally been over the years to think you have rights without duties, and by extension, that the elite have rights without duties as well. But, you don’t really have the same “rights” as . Do you? And is founded on . We give the elite the “right” to accumulate that allow for at . In return, they do their “duty” and ensure that is in a manner that benefits the masses giving them the right to be rich. Otherwise: . Right?
6/8

#advertising #commercial #euphemisms #CapitalistPropaganda #programmed #billionaires #capitalism #social #contract #fortunes #production #scale #productivity #invested #guillotines

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Edde Beket · @edde
756 followers · 1716 posts · Server mastodon.nl

@AimeeMaroux
Phallus-and-vulva arrangement, that's a keeper

#euphemisms

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🔞Autumn Rainn🔞  · @autumnrainn
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Ian D. Richardson · @idrmedia
2 followers · 16 posts · Server newsie.social

| An update of my blog article examining the use of to avoid saying that a person had died: richmedfilmbooks.blogspot.com/

#mortality #death #euphemisms

Last updated 2 years ago

demï7en 🎗 · @demi7en
22 followers · 612 posts · Server infosec.exchange

@ScottLucas

Just a note on the widespread use of in media messaging:

When talk about "security forces" or "national security" it is invariably about the regime's own need to secure its hold on power by keeping the subjects down.

I'm not sure I understand why they're so popular. Out of politeness to the dictators? To avoid harming... business links?

#euphemisms #dictatorships #iran #china #burma #authoritarianism

Last updated 2 years ago

Fajjie · @fajjie
31 followers · 343 posts · Server mastodon.lol

Please don't overuse , because they bypass people's .

Example: I no longer care about , so I'm twitter and adding as many euphemisms as I can think of without causing collateral damage to my feed.

#euphemisms #filters #twitter #blocking #etiquette

Last updated 2 years ago

Ian D. Richardson · @idrmedia
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Sir Hendrick ⚔️ · @SirHendrick
423 followers · 6931 posts · Server noagendasocial.com

Learn for . They're not all , you know?
🚼
youtu.be/Hg49x9NvOeI

#euphemisms #pedophilia #nepiophiles #map

Last updated 3 years ago

Sir Hendrick ⚔️ · @SirHendrick
423 followers · 6931 posts · Server noagendasocial.com

Last episode we heard a doctor call the appropriate body part a 'dick'. Adam did not like it. Doctors should not say this. He prefers the word 'penis'. What is your viewpoint? Are euphemisms better? Is Latin a more suitable language than English?

#language #euphemisms

Last updated 3 years ago