Kate Burridge famous quotes

All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier
-- Kate Burridge

#Easier #Euphemism

'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
-- Kate Burridge

#Grace #Intellectual #Important

A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard
-- Kate Burridge

#Communication #Dialect #Standards

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress
-- Kate Burridge

#Different #Causes #Interest

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.
-- Kate Burridge

#Teacher #Order #People

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
-- Kate Burridge

#Topics #Deceiving #Used

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

It is easier to kill what we do not know.

It is much easier to drive without having an accident.

Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.

Euphemisms are for the differently brained.

"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.