Kate Burridge Quotes

• All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier

  Kate Burridge

  Easier, Euphemism

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• A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard

  Kate Burridge

  Communication, Dialect, Standards

  Kate Burridge, Jean Gail Mulder (1999). “English in Australia and New Zealand: an introduction to its history, structure and use”

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• 'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces

  Kate Burridge

  Grace, Intellectual, Important

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• All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

  Kate Burridge

  Different, Causes, Interest

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• Because of the way our society is structures, using sentences such as "I don't it" can put people at a disadvantage. And this is, of course, why teachers have to give students access to Standard English, in order to protect them against this sort of prejudice.

  Kate Burridge

  Teacher, Order, People

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• Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

  Kate Burridge

  Topics, Deceiving, Used

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