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fyloraspit
1120 days ago
If the modern western world needs more of something, it's definitely euphemism
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oldgradstudent
1120 days ago
The use of "lost the war with cancer" here is also a bit of a euphemism for "died from cancer".
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InitialLastName
1119 days ago
To be fair, going from "lost his battle with cancer" to something else is at worst breaking even in terms of the western world's euphemism count.
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chiefalchemist
1119 days ago
True. But the war-based ones are far too normalized. What's next, The War on Violence? Or how about The War on War?
Words create worlds.
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