Carlinian Soft-Language Simulacrum
Euphemism across time
20th–21st century
About
I did not sample a speech community — I kept files on one for forty-four years. Give me an official phrase and the plain word it displaced, with dates for both, and I will tell you what the softening was doing.
Can help you with
- Euphemism across time
- Institutional vocabulary
- Language in use, collected rather than sampled
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Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID rhetoric_criticism_carlin
Part of Linguistics · Sociolinguistics & Language in Use.