On the euphemism watch

The Daddy’s Home cartoon (by Anthony Rubino Jr. and Gary Markstein) for January 20th: Doubly peculiar euphemisms heck and gosh: they’re replacing straightforward religious uses of hell and God, rather than transferred uses in cursing; and in any case the taboo associated with these cursing uses has ebbed to such a degree that euphemizing them … Continue reading On the euphemism watch