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Probably does. Although the words are definitely not equivalent. I'm not advocating any sort of age limit on Roald Dahl books, pretty much the opposite.


Although the words are definitely not equivalent

Give it a generation of children growing up with the new euphemisms as standard terminology. Then they will be equivalent.


The semantic treadmill strikes again




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