Sarah Thorne - (applies to non-PC comedy) 'Distasteful uses of language are tempered by the understanding that we would not act that way [in real life]' <- This is paraphrased but is fine to use as long as you write it like this. It is basically her way of saying that stand up comedians will say offensive things knowing that it will be taken in humour and not as their real thoughts.
Steven Pinker (Harvard Professor) - 'Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns'
Steven Pinker - Euphemism treadmill (No need to remember a quote, just remember what it is and a few examples of words which have gone through this process).
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