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Euphemism of the Week

December 28, 2010 //  by David Keyes

A recent New Yorker article reported that an outside auditor assessing a school building project in Nepal was called “very healthy” by locals. This was their euphemism for “massively obese.” According to writer Peter Hessler, while walking from one school to another, the auditor “was overwhelmed by healthiness and had to sit down.”

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