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George Carlin on soft language
Rob Logan
A clip from George Carlin's 1990 special 'Doin' It Again' in which he describes how American English has been sterilized with euphemisms, using examples such as shell shock becoming PTSD.
HN reaches for this clip whenever a thread involves euphemism or corporate and sanitized phrasing.
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