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Dysphemism – A Word of the Day Poem
My friend remark with no harsh criticism,
instead practice dysphemism,
and let the words you speak be soft and clear,
as chance is certain they will reach his ear.
Erthona
©2015
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(03-15-2015, 12:05 PM)Erthona Wrote: Dysphemism – A Word of the Day Poem
My friend remark with no harsh criticism,
instead practice dysphemism,
and let the words you speak be soft and clear,
as chance is certain they will reach his ear.
Erthona
©2015
Hi, dale, first it's so interesting that euphemism is so widely known but I've never heard the word dysphemism.
The poem: My friend remarks? remarked?
It seems to me to read that practicing dysphemism makes words soft and clear. Am I reading wrong?
Though some will cloak critique in sugar
My friend Shem loves the schism
dug by his sharpest words, the bugger
details reviews with dysphemism.
 Sorry, shem, you rhymed with phem.
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It means to replace a harsh word with a less harsh synonym.
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Sympathetic Magic
Now should your lungs freeze-seize,
from croop, cough, or sneeze,
call our good friend shem,
his name, it rhymes with phlegm.
"Phem" isn't even a word.
Words that rhyme with shem: ahem, brim, dim, fem, flim, gym, gem, him, hymn, Jim, Kim, limb, mim, nim, quim, rim, slim, stem, trim, Tim vim, whim, zym.
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Quote:dys·phe·mism
ˈdisfəˌmizəm/
noun
a derogatory or unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one, such as “loony bin” for “mental hospital.”
And I going for dys phemism with shem/schism. guess I should have tried harder. 
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"It seems to me to read that practicing dysphemism makes words soft and clear. Am I reading wrong?"
Ah, Dyslexia has struck again. She is a cruel bitch. Well, either that or the fever
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But was this just slothful practice or was it by evil design!
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Ye shall know them by their fruits. - Matthew 12:15-16
"dys" - badly, ill "phem" saying, speech
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(03-15-2015, 09:13 PM)ellajam Wrote: (03-15-2015, 12:05 PM)Erthona Wrote: Dysphemism – A Word of the Day Poem
My friend remark with no harsh criticism,
instead practice dysphemism,
and let the words you speak be soft and clear,
as chance is certain they will reach his ear.
Erthona
©2015
Hi, dale, first it's so interesting that euphemism is so widely known but I've never heard the word dysphemism.
The poem: My friend remarks? remarked?
It seems to me to read that practicing dysphemism makes words soft and clear. Am I reading wrong?
Though some will cloak critique in sugar
My friend Shem loves the schism
dug by his sharpest words, the bugger
details reviews with dysphemism.
Sorry, shem, you rhymed with phem.
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An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still,
Wherewith, alas, I have been long possess'd,
Which ceaseth not to tempt me to each ill,
Nor gives me once but one poor minute's rest.
In me it speaks, whether I sleep or wake;
And when by means to drive it out I try,
With greater torments then it me doth take,
And tortures me in most extremity.
Before my face it lays down my despairs,
And hastes me on unto a sudden death;
Now tempting me to drown myself in tears,
And then in sighing to give up my breath.
Thus am I still provok'd to every evil
By this good-wicked spirit, sweet angel-devil.
- Michael Drayton
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