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Semantic Chickens
A dictionary of euphemisms and the words they were chosen to avoid.
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- HeadwindsThings went badlyProtects: Management from the first-person plural.
- Learning opportunityFailureProtects: Everyone in the meeting from saying what happened.
- Let goFiredProtects: The manager from being the subject of the sentence.
- Revenue shortfallWe lost moneyProtects: The speaker from a first-person sentence.
- RightsizingLayoffsProtects: The people doing the firing from the word "firing."
- Collateral damageCivilians killedProtects: The briefer from describing what the bomb did.
- Department of DefenseDepartment of WarProtects: Anyone who has to say out loud what the department is for.
- DetaineePrisonerProtects: The government from the protections that attach to the word "prisoner."
- Friendly fireWe shot our ownProtects: The after-action report from the word "mistake."
- Servicing the targetBombing itProtects: The briefer from a verb with a victim in it.
- Alternative factsFalsehoodsProtects: A spokesperson from the word "false" on live television.
- Correctional facilityPrisonProtects: The state from a sentence that describes what it is doing to the person inside.
- Enhanced interrogationTortureProtects: The people who authorized it from the statute that prohibits it.
- Ethnic cleansingMass murder and expulsionProtects: Diplomats from the legal obligations that follow the word "genocide."
- MisspokeLiedProtects: The record, by amending the mouth instead of the speaker.
- Revenue enhancementTax increaseProtects: An incumbent from the word they campaigned against.
- ContentWriting, pictures, music, filmProtects: The platform from having to know what it's selling.
- DeprecatedAbandoned, but still runningProtects: The maintainer from the word "broken" and the user from the word "soon."
- EngagementTime spent that we can sellProtects: The product team from the word "compulsion."
- ShareSellProtects: The company from the verb that describes its business model.
- SunsetCancelProtects: The product manager from the verb.
- Convenience feeSurchargeProtects: The seller from having to say the price was not the price.
- New and ImprovedSame thing, new boxProtects: The manufacturer from having nothing to say.
- Pre-lovedUsedProtects: The shop from the word its customers already know.
- Pre-ownedUsedProtects: The buyer from thinking about the previous owner.
- ShrinkageTheftProtects: The ledger. Nothing protects the clerk.
- Economically disadvantagedPoorProtects: The writer from a word that might sound like a judgment.
- Passed awayDiedProtects: The speaker from a one-syllable word in a room with a grieving person.
- Wardrobe malfunctionSomebody pulled her top off on televisionProtects: The performers and the network from the word "deliberate."
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