Like deodorant to disguise body odor, we use euphemisms to tone down the unpleasant nature of certain things we need to say. Commonly used euphemisms– “call of nature,” “pass gas,” “off-colour”–are not just to sanitize our conversations but also to neutralize negative connotations. As children, we all remember being reprimanded for not using the “right” [...]
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Shirley has read Unmentionables
April 23rd, 2012 · No Comments
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Carmen has read Coffee with Dickens
February 27th, 2012 · No Comments
Title: Coffee with Dickens Author: Paul Schlicke Publisher: London: Duncan Baird, 2008 Call No.: English 823.8 SCH If you’ve been in the know, it was Charles Dickens 200th birth day in February 2012. In NLB, we’ve celebrated it with book display posters and a fiction alert here on High Browse. I’ve picked out Coffee with [...]
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Wan Ni has read Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
January 20th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Author: Jeanette Winterson Publisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 2011 Call No.:English 823.92 WIN I will have it upfront – I do not usually read autobiographies, or biographies for the matter. I am not the type who has any curiosity about the person behind a book, an invention, [...]
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