Euphemisms in English Everyday Discourse Eufemismy V anglickém jazykovém prostředí

poop
, however, is not the only waste that produces RNG.”
(Sevcenko, 
2006) 
“And if your kid (or you) 
have peed
in the water, I don’t really care about that 
either. “
(Goble, 2017) 
Since the connotations of 
fart 
have changed from neutral to negative, new 
euphemisms were needed. In the example below, there is a clinical term used 
mainly in the medical realm. The term is of Latin origin and highly formal thus it 
is not used very often in a spoken discourse but rather in technical articles. 
Another term, in the example referring to this phenomenon is neutral and less 
formal than the other one. The main function of this euphemism is to avoid the 
direct naming and to be understood as quite an elegant way of calling this 

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secretion. There are also some colloquial terms, but are considered to be too 
informal to be used in press.
“According to Shelth, many red meats and protein contain high amounts of sulfur 
– so while herbivores may 
pass gas
 more often, 
flatus
 from meat eaters may smell 
much worse.”
(Grush, 2014) 
Last but not least secretion our body can produce is vomit. 
Vomiting
names the phenomenon directly and is understood as a neutral and formal 
designation. The clinical term comes from Latin and is widely used in medical 
realm and in articles dealing with health, but hardly ever one can come across it in 
a spoken language. It does not soften the meaning, but describes it in the technical 
way without any additional colouring.
“One in 10,000 pregnant women has 
nausea 
so severe that it can, in rare cases, 
affect the unborn baby’s growth.”
(Williams, 2008)
The examples below provide other ways of naming 
vomiting
. Although 
they both are rather informal they are freely used in media in which their function 
is to evade direct naming. However, both alternatives might either denote 
different phenomena or vary in its colouring. Whereas 
to be sick
means to vomit 
in British English, in American English it stands for not feeling very well. On the 
other hand 
throw up
might be a decent description of vomiting, but at the same 
time it might receive its vulgar tone. It depends on the context and mainly on the 
speaker or writer of the text, because they provide the expression with gentle or 
negative colouring.

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“As soon as I stop I can’t control it for long. The worst was at the [2010] 
Commonwealth Games. It was on telly, wasn’t it? Me