Euphemisms

[bunn]

Giving my spam bin its not so regular review, I am intrigued to discover that I have received a number of invitations to expand or improve my 'unit' 'thing' or 'item'.

UNIT? Are there really people who refer to their private parts as 'units'? It sounds very Lego, somehow.

I was briefly most concerned about the email with the title 'Sweep and Mop with One Device' but perhaps fortunately for my sanity, this did actually prove to be someone advertising a floor cleaner.

I also got an offer of 'the only right fix for losing the bricks'. I was intrigued enough to actually read that one, but I still don't know if 'losing the bricks' is a sexual or a financial euphemism...

However, the advice 'to grow thinner, diminish your dinner' was right on the money. The essence of all diet books, distilled into 6 words: I didn't even need to read the email, only the title.

Why is it that Korean and Chinese spam features photos of white non-asian-looking people?

Comments

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Asian spam particularly, but I have noticed that a lot of LadyofAstolat's anime includes people talking and acting as if they're Japanese but looking terribly western. It almost seems like an aspirational sort of thing, or at least that western is cool.