Phrasing Criticism
Commenters debate and criticize oxymoronic, euphemistic, semantically dubious, or poorly chosen phrases and wordings in the article, highlighting doublespeak, clichés, and contradictions.
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indeed, it's kind of an oxymoron!
You're playing with semantics.
That's some serious doublespeak right there
You keep using that word “inconvenience”. It is a shibboleth.
This almost sounds like an oxymoron.
Thought-terminating cliché detected
Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me
That's some opaque word choice there!
The euphemisms are insufferable
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.