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Even the most superficial analysis of any speech community would reveal that certain varieties of speech are prestigious and others are stigmatized, and that what determines a particular variety's status has virtually nothing to do with the internal features of that variety and everything to do with the class, and in this case the race, of the speakers involved.
A write-off of a loan occurs when an agency official determines, after all appropriate collection tools have been used, that a debt is uncollectible.
It should be noted here that the dilution factor selected for a test determines the width of the NOEC-LOEC interval and the inherent maximum precision of the test.
What I am getting at, to paraphrase the infinite wisdom of Pigs is pigs , is that shit is shit , and there is nothing dysphemistic about it (unless used “in talking about one's opponents”)--that is, it is the context that determines whether it is dysphemistic, which is again dependent on whether it was the intention of the speaker to use a taboo word in place of socially acceptable one.
In the United States, the Rate Commission determines the attributable cost for each class and subclass of mail.