Let’s take a look at some childbirth-related words and see if there might be some room for improvement. What did we learn so far, boys and girls? Euphemisms can be Useful-isms. For instance, a doctor will tell you something like “you might experience some pressure,” which is a medical euphemism for “you will experience a galaxy of pain that will make you wish for death and immediate cremation.” Go figure.īut, that’s just a fun perk of euphemisms, the primary benefit is the ability to turn something hideous and awful into something tame and fluffy. Some people just can’t face going into an explanation of a penis energetically penetrating a woman’s vagina, squirting fluid inside and then making a tiny body grow inside her belly. “The stork” are just two simple words and look how handy they are for some shyer parents as a quick dodge for answering a little child’s question about where babies come from. It’s called a euphemism (yoo-fuh-miz-uhm). You can turn the most vulgar, scary or embarassing concept into a phrase that you might expect Thumper to say to Bambie.
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