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Goodness Gracious! What A Lot Of Ways Of Not Saying "God"! Jeez may be MetaFilter's genteel exclamation of choice, but crusty and trusty old
William Safire of the
New York Times[
registration required]has the gracious goods on
other ways of not(quite)invoking the name of the Lord in vain; whilst proving
en route that Donald Rumsfeld isn't, after all, the wilting sissy or pseudo-Southern belle we all thought him to be...
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Jun 15, 2002 -
20 comments
The tendency toward
euphemism, catchwords, bites and labels displacing description of uniquicity. Battles of rhetorical titans!
posted by semmi
on Apr 18, 2002 -
5 comments
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