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Why Do We Use Euphemisms?
Wheeler: George Carlin is the wonderful sort of folk philosopher of language. He didn't even have a high school education, so it was not something that he got from schooling. Wheeler: American English is loaded with euphemisms because Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. What about bullsh** as he called it? No more old people in this country. We shipped them all away and we brought in these senior citizens. And he was on Simba.
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