How can "the Great Recession" have been great if it was not great enough to be a depression?
Language
Once, we were isolated from each other by lack of speech. Now, by excess.
"I apologize for any inconvenience." That is, "I regret (out of prudence rather than contrition) if your excessive sensitivity falsely found fault with my innocent actions."
We euphemize death with the softer phrase "passed away", as if everyone, instead of only a lucky few, died peacefully in his sleep.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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