Korean Job Discussion Forums

[ManintheMiddle]

George Orwell once wrote a marvelous essay on ideological cliches that had worked their way into the English language, mostly from Marxists. Someone ought to do the same with contemporary lingo.

What words (or phrases are so euphemistic that they make you cringe?

My top 3 are as follows:

1. collateral damage (re: civilian loss; re: deaths of innocents)
2. issue (re: problem)
3. readjustment allowance (re: moving expenses)

[Young FRANKenstein]

[aboxofchocolates]

Link to that essay, please?!!

[blurgalurgalurga]

Is it this one, 'politics and the english language?'
Here's a good summary of it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language
...and there's links to it at the bottom of the wiki page.

[SHANE02]

"Anywho"

"I guess"

Don't guess, if you have to guess I'll ask someone else.

[Arthur Dent]

Ethnic Cleansing. Are we talking about the hired help cleaning the sink? I mean really...so sad.

[samcheokguy]

making the beast with two backs.
-who ever thought that up needs serious help

[samd]

THREAD TITLES IN CAPS MAKE ME CRINGE, STEVE

[jajdude]

senior citizen
golden years
disadvantaged
challenged
visually or hearing impaired
downsizing
alternate lifestyle
person with illness
African American
comfort women
friendly fire
detention center
casualties of war
The American people
sanitation engineer (surely a joke)
waste removal officer
domestic assistant
administrative professional
president (say, of a hagwon)
chairperson
educator
heavyset
between jobs

[Rusty Shackleford]

[blackjack]

You're doing a good job but ...

[frankhenry]

It's Korean culture = we are f***ing you over

[RACETRAITOR]

The only one I can think of right now is going Dutch/Dutch pay. It's funny when Koreans say it to mean a way of paying that North Americans introduced them to, but rather than update it to "Going American," they choose to pick on the Dutch.

[IMF crisis]

Not sure if this qualifies as a euphemism, but I got tired of "jumped the shark" after hearing it just once. I've never heard a lamer attempt to sound hip. For the while there, it seemed like people were saying every TV show had "jumped the shark" just because they wanted so badly to use that ridiculous phrase.

[RACETRAITOR]