[ExI] Language Issuing Forth Before Our Very Eyes

[Damien Broderick]

At 06:59 PM 5/21/2007 -0700, Lee wrote:

>  "My husband and I have
>issues."  I say that even five (5!) years ago, that would have been
>"My husband and I have problems".

Exactly!

>Isn't it true that "issues" has
>very recently become a euphemism for "problems"? ...it's yet another 
>example of the mindless march of euphemism

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

I abominate this vile usage. It's feeble and evasive. I have issues with it!

(Its seeping presence is possibly derived not so much from "I take 
issue with X," or from bureaubabble, as from the once famous book 
title FAT IS A FEMINIST ISSUE, which one waggish friend naughtily 
pronounced "Fat is a feminist tissue.")

Damien Broderick