euphemistic

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks about “working people,” she uses euphemistic code for poor people.

The word “gleich”, or “same,” and “Schaltung,” or switch, derives from electrical circuitry terminology, suggesting literally the switching of everything onto the same circuit, a latter-day version of which appears to be outlined in the presidential transition projects, drafted by Trump acolytes, under the euphemistic title “Project 2025.”

Even former president Tsai was careful to refer to China in euphemistic terms like “the other side of the strait” or “the Beijing authorities”.

For Chinese rap to thrive, artists have to find original voices, they say. 32-year-old rapper Fulai describes his own music as chill rap or “bedroom music” — not in the euphemistic sense, but the type of music you listen to as you lay in bed.

In Canada, the target reduction is 20 percent, and to coax people into joining the effort, the government’s Department of Citizen Strategy has come up with language as euphemistic as its name.