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card_zero
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The surprising geography of American left-handedne...
Noa-names, a precaution against things like accidentally summoning a bear:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noa-name
ks2048
13 days ago
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Interesting. I knew Spanish izquierda (left) came from Basque, but I didn't realize it was to avoid a taboo word like sinister.
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card_zero
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These are euphemisms to avoid another euphemism, as the other poster says,
sinister
itself starting out as positive. The ancient euphemism treadmill.
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