Euphemisms in English Everyday Discourse Eufemismy V anglickém jazykovém prostředí

at the moment
 so. 
Moss: What?
Jen: 
I’ve got Aunt Irma visiting
. 
Moss: Do not like Aunt Irma, I’ve got an aunt like that!
Jen: It’s my term for my 
time of the month
. 
Moss: What time of the month? The weekend?
Jen: No.
Moss: Does Aunt Irma visit on the weekend?
Roy: Moss. 
Jen: You know, it it’s 
high tide
. 
Moss: But we’re not on the coast.
Roy: Moss! 
Jen: 
I’m closed for maintenance
.
Moss: Closed for maintenance?
Roy: Moss!
Jen: 
I’ve fallen to the Communists
!
Moss: Well, they do have some strong arguments.
Roy: “Carrie”, Moss, first scene in “Carrie”. 
Moss: Yeah

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Jen: You know, people tell me I’m not great during 
this time
, so I felt I should 
warn you. 
(IT CROWD, Series 1, Episode 6)
2.2.2 Naming Other Secretion
Naming human secretion has always been taboo, which lasts till nowadays. 
People feel uneasy when speaking about human excrement, which might be 
caused by the fact that there is no term that would not be either too medical or too 
colloquial. The clinical names for human waste are of Latin origin. Thus, they 
sound too technical one can come across them in scientific oriented articles, rarely 
in daily press and hardly ever in an everyday spoken discourse. They are formal 
terms without any connotations that refer directly to its phenomenon.
“The more than 700 climbers and guides who spend nearly two months on 
Everest’s slopes each climbing season leave large amounts of