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M.F. , a euphemistic form of motherfucker , had been attested to 1964; we found a 1959 example buried in Robert Gold's excellent Jazz Lexicon.
The terms used here are not immediately transparent: if by communicative intention is meant `denotative purpose, the information the speaker wishes to convey,' unless one views communication in the broadest way, it would seem to me that the definition confuses denotation with connotation; that is to say, whether an expression is euphemistic, neutral, or taboo is a matter of connotation, and the fact that a speaker avoids shit for defecate, move one's bowels , etc., is purely a connotative matter: denotatively (communicatively?)
Most of all, it was a competition in truth-telling (or falsifying), a Cold War duel in credibility occurring amid a mounting pileup of classified information, exposés, and oxymoronic jargon that would eventually donate euphemistic doublespeak terms like "dual hegemony," "limited nuclear war," and the slogan "win the peace" to the American language.
Some of us might be inclined to view terms like under-achiever as psychologist's or educationist's euphemistic jargon for dope ; but such descriptive designations, deliberately nonspecific and presumably neutral (at least for the time being), are in keeping with the view of the human intellect taken in these closing years of the 20th century.
For Americans, that phrase "international community" is not abstract or cynical or euphemistic; and we try to make good on its implications.
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