Euphemisms

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 104. Chapters: Euphemism, Doublespeak, Creative accounting, Toilet humour, Final Solution, Ethnic cleansing, Four-letter word, Collateral damage, Code word, The Big Sleep, Jiminy Cricket, N-word, Comfort women, Friendly fire, Enhanced interrogation techniques, The Emergency, Plausible deniability, Integrated Resort, Glory hole, Eve teasing, Old Sparky, Gentlemen's club, Religion of Peace, Layoff, Two Ladies, Night soil, Unparliamentary language, Encounter killings by police, Wardrobe malfunction, Profanity in science fiction, Rootless cosmopolitan, Dogging, Fanny Adams, The Scottish Play, Freedom fries, New immigrants in Hong Kong, Rubber-hose cryptanalysis, Hearts and Minds, Fuddle duddle, Tired and emotional, Rusty trombone, Recreation and Amusement Association, Person of color, Revolutionary tax, Frak, Sexual slang, Body count, Intimate part, Making out, Indian rolling, Sam Hill, Inclusion, Third degree, Seeing pink elephants, Kick the bucket, Police action, The wrong type of snow, Bamboo Curtain, Sacrebleu, Fertility clinic, Lifestyle center, Victim of peace, Sexual slur, Paradiastole, Senior citizen, The birds and the bees, Texas-sized, Black-bag cryptanalysis, Mizu shobai, Groin, Corrective rape, Economical with the truth, Bat phone, Peculiar institution, Tylwyth Teg, Pacification, Mixed ability, Gone for a Burton, Another place, Carnal knowledge, Longtail, Exotic dancer, Wetwork, Terminate with extreme prejudice, On the razzle, Terminological inexactitude, Cement shoes, F word, Love child, Feminine hygiene, Losing religion, Accounting irregularity, Streetwise, Smalls, Religious cleansing, Children of the plantation, Making love, Short-arm inspection, Necktie social, Rose Cottage, Skin Flick, Polite society, White Christian, Tarnation, The Cause, Replacement worker, Giving Up The Ghost, Sanitary engineer, N-bomb, Vertically challenged, U word. Excerpt: Ethnic cleansing "is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas. (Commission of Experts Established Pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 780)". An earlier draft by the Commission of Experts described ethnic cleansing as "the planned deliberate removal from a specific territory, persons of a particular ethnic group, by force or intimidation, in order to render that area ethnically homogenous." which it based on "the many reports describing the policy and practices conducted in the former Yugoslavia, 'ethnic cleansing' has been carried out by means of murder, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, extra-judicial executions, rape and sexual assaults, confinement of civilian population in ghetto areas, forcible removal, displacement and deportation of civilian population, deliberate military attacks or threats of attacks on civilians and civilian areas, and wanton destruction of property. Those practices constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention". Ethnic cleansing is not to be confused with genocide. These terms are not synonymous, yet the academic discourse considers both as existing in a spectrum of assaults on nations or religio-ethnic groups. Ethnic cleansing is similar to forced deportation or 'population transfer' whereas genocide is the "intentional murder...