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W. F. Strong
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Host, Texas Standard » Stories from Texas
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By W. F. Strong| Texas Standard Verified Euphemisms, as I’m sure you know, are kind words for harsh truths. It’s a way of sugarcoating things, like saying “she passed away” instead of “she died,” or instead of saying “he’s lazy,” we might say, “he’s taking a break.”Life insurance is a good example of a euphemism. You’re really insured against death, not against life. No one wants to buy death insurance, though. But life insurance? Yes. I will have some of that. It might be the most profitable euphemism ever invented.
By J. Frank Dobie, W. F. Strong| Texas Standard Verified One of Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie’s favorite stories was the story of Sancho, the tamale-loving Longhorn. He heard it from John Rigby of Beeville, Texas. Dobie said that he figured Rigby had dressed up the story a bit and also admitted that he himself had done some “constructive work” on it over the years. It goes like this:There was a man named Kerr who lived on a small ranch out in the brush country south of San Antonio.
By W. F. Strong| Texas Standard Verified Euphemisms, as I’m sure you know, are kind words for harsh truths. It’s a way of sugarcoating things, like saying “she passed away” instead of “she died,” or instead of saying “he’s lazy,” we might say, “he’s taking a break.”Life insurance is a good example of a euphemism. You’re really insured against death, not against life. No one wants to buy death insurance, though. But life insurance? Yes. I will have some of that. It might be the most profitable euphemism ever invented.
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