I don’t get this whole cancel English thing. It’s cancelling a word because of its literal definition and substituting it with an alternative word loosely given the same definition.
Except in the case of “plus-sized”, I think that holds some actual negative context. It sounds like an insult because you’re calling someone obese, but you think they’re so obese that you need to be cautious about it.
I don’t get this whole cancel English thing. It’s cancelling a word because of its literal definition and substituting it with an alternative word loosely given the same definition.
Except in the case of “plus-sized”, I think that holds some actual negative context. It sounds like an insult because you’re calling someone obese, but you think they’re so obese that you need to be cautious about it.
The euphemism treadmill has been going on for a very long time.