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The person you're replying to really means to say "euphemism," or inventing a new term to avoid the negative connotations of an existing term that already fits.
by nonameiguess 4y ago
The person you're replying to really means to say "euphemism," or inventing a new term to avoid the negative connotations of an existing term that already fits. Sometimes euphemisms are motivated by political correctness, but not always and definitely not in calling a business model mostly indistinguishable from illegal pyramid schemes multi-level marketing.