Kate Burridge quotes
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“All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier”
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“'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces”
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“A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard”
-- Kate BurridgeSource : Kate Burridge, Jean Gail Mulder (1999). “English in Australia and New Zealand: an introduction to its history, structure and use”
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“All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress”
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“Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And this is, of course, why teachers have to give students access to Standard English, in order to protect them against this sort of prejudice.”
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“Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive”
-- Kate Burridge
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“Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.”
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“I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.”
Source : "Alexander Siddig Is Part of Julian Schnabel’s Latest Cinematic Canvas". Interview with Ashley Wren Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.
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“Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.”
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“"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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