The world never tires of a treadmill of euphemisms, does it? Idiot, cretin, retard, special, DD, ND beggar, bum, hobo, vagrant, transient, homeless, unhoused,

The world never tires of a treadmill of euphemisms, does it? Idiot, cretin, retard, special, DD, ND beggar, bum, hobo, vagrant, transient, homeless, unhoused, person experiencing blah blah blah Words have meaning; words have power; words can hurt, but we seem to think that we can just soften words down until they lose meaning and power. Nothing new - from Biblical times, people have used circumlocutions. It's often necessary to use a specialist interpretation in the Bible when a circumlocution substitutes for a sensitive subject, such as anatomy, or pagan gods.