Euphemise This By John Mcwhorter Summary

Throughout the world’s time line we have experienced many change centuries after centuries. Going from having dinosaurs, declaring war and having different types of president every four years. As well as the fashion trends and the new modern car design being the highlight in everyday magazines. However, the way languages are written and spoken appear to be one of the biggest things in history that is being changed rapidly. In the article ‘Euphemise this’ written by John McWhorter, discusses the different ways a word is altering and never staying in its place. McWhorter gives his judgement by saying “Since that is likely eternal, we must accept that we’ll change our terms just like we change our underwear, as a part of linguistic life in a civilized …show more content…
McWhorter mentions that most of the words that were used differently seem to be used as a fashionable way for society to look cooler, he gave an example by using the word ‘handicap’ which in this case is a formal way rather than saying that ‘this person is crippled’. However, this can also result to the texts ‘Communication in everyday life’ written by Steve duck and David McMahan because the text gives explain and used the words polysemy, which is define as multiple meaning that can be associated with a given word or symbol rather than just one unambiguous meaning’, to dedicate the reason why words are used in many different situations such as in a positive or negative way but the words still having the same meaning. However, the texts also mention ‘High Code’ which is a formal, grammatical and very correct official way of talking, implying that words will continue to be improved and be used in a higher professional way for society to use in their daily lives. It is also beneficial for people to have this sort of